Two suburbs bordering a lockdown zone have recorded a high number of additional infections in the past week. Flemington and Kensington have not been identified as hotspots and are not yet in lockdown, but border Ascot Vale, which is already in lockdown.
is now the subject of a judicial inquiry.
"We had conversations with the ADF ... and it was deemed, I think, by agreement between the government and the Australian Defence Force that they would simply be replicating the work that [the] SkyBus [is] doing now and doing well.More than 164,000 people have been tested across Victoria in the past week, but many residents are still refusing tests, Ms Mikakos said."That might be for a range of reasons, including that they may have already been tested in a different location.
Mount Ridley College is now among 22 schools that have been closed for deep cleaning since last Friday due to positive cases in students or staff. Meanwhile, RMIT University's Point Cook Flight School was closed earlier this week after a student contracted the virus. The infected student attended a flight class on Sunday with one instructor, who began self-isolating on Wednesday.
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