New outbreak data shows that abattoirs and warehouses are the workplace settings with the most COVID-19 cases, but other sites have the largest transmission
Schools had 69 outbreaks and 630 cases; hospitals and healthcare had 53 outbreaks and 540 cases; and childcare centres had 21 outbreaks and 180 cases.Advertisement
Treasurer Tim Pallas told a parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday that his department was assuming Melbourne would move from stage four to stage three restrictionsBut Mr Andrews said the accuracy of modelling for that timeline would depend on the "millions of decisions" made by individual Victorians each day.
Health Department figures showed Greater Geelong had 179 active cases on Wednesday, with 53 in Bendigo and 22 in Ballarat. One week ago there were 132 active cases in Greater Geelong, 29 in Bendigo and 13 in Ballarat. Bendigo Health chief executive Peter Faulkner said the hub was taking over from the state’s public health unit to trace close contacts in the region."Information on how the positive cases acquired the illness and where it may have been passed on was work that was previously done by the state – now we will do this work for the Loddon Mallee region," Mr Faulkner said.
A long-term worker at the Golden Farms chicken abattoir who tested positive to coronavirus died on the weekend.
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