'Highly likely' more Melbourne suburbs will be locked down amid call for infected to isolate
It is "highly likely" more Melbourne suburbs will be forced back into lockdown, epidemiologists say, as Victoria records its single biggest increase in community transmission of coronavirus since the pandemic began.
"Those other suburbs must not have exceeded that criteria," he said. "For example, if all the cases in a suburb were due to just one family cluster and that was really well contained you wouldn't need to worry about it so much as areas where transmission was higher." "If they can't social distance at home then the government needs to consider putting them into a dedicated quarantine hotel," Professor McLaws said.
Of the new cases 13 were linked to known outbreaks, 37 were discovered through routine testing and the source of 27 cases was still under investigation.
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