Victoria has reported four new COVID-19 cases from the same household, with authorities still investigating where they picked up the virus.
Some 23,679 Victorians were tested on Wednesday and 20,784 received a vaccine dose at state-run sites.
The woman left Melbourne with her husband on 1 June, when the city was in lockdown, and tested positive at the end of a road trip through NSW and into Queensland.Separately, three people were caught flying into New Zealand last week, after leaving Melbourne during the lockdown and trying to enter the country via Sydney.
While those travellers have tested negative so far the woman tested positive on Wednesday, putting regional centres in NSW and Queensland on alert. Six close contacts of the woman have been identified so far, including her husband who has to date tested negative. The couple is now at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.
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