Victoria has recorded 11 new local cases of COVID-19 after hundreds of students and staff linked to a high school in Melbourne’s inner north-west were ordered to isolate after a student tested positive for coronavirus
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It comes as hundreds of students and staff linked to Mount Alexander College, a high school in the inner northwestern suburb of Flemington, were ordered to isolate after a student tested positive for coronavirus. However, the Premier insisted it was achievable to drive local cases to zero despite the new outbreak penetrating western suburbs communities with greater language barriers, bigger family groups and an increased proportion of essential workers who can’t work from home.
“There is a certainty that there are more cases out there and that’s why you need to get tested when you’ve got any symptoms at all.”Last month Victoria went into lockdown after 10 new daily cases and 26 active cases, and it took 10 days for all new cases to be in isolation for their period of infectivity.has been locked down after eight members of the same household, one of whom is a student at Al-Taqwa college in Truganina, tested positive.
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