Victoria has ended the week with good news, the state has recorded just two new cases of COVID-19 and no further deaths
Victoria has recorded just two new cases of COVID-19 and no further deaths, in much welcome news for locked down residents fearing the spread of the Shepparton cluster.
Ironically, if the date for Melbourne to move to step three of reopening had still been set at October 26 – rather than being brought forward to October 19 – the 14-day average would be shaping up nicely against its target of five or less. There were five consecutive days with no new mystery cases last month, but in recent days there has been a resurgence in cases for which the infection source cannot be traced, coinciding with the Chadstone outbreak.
Thousands of residents in the town of Shepparton have been tested for coronavirus this week following revelations a truck driver connected to the Chadstone outbreak, who spread the virus in Kilmore, also infected people in Shepparton. The, failing to tell them he had stopped in Shepparton on his travels in regional Victoria.
Mornington Peninsula residents have said expanding Melbourne's five-kilometre travel limit will not lead to an influx of people flooding beachside suburbs. They say Melburnians are already flouting lockdown restrictions and travelling to beaches and holiday homes on the Peninsula.
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