One additional case of Covid-19 has been reported in Casey City over the weekend – bringing the city’s total to four active cases, according to the state’s latest health data.
The city’s tally stood at 74 cases while in nearby council areas, Greater Dandenong and Cardinia had confirmed three active cases respectively.
It comes as Victoria’s cases rose by 12 to 1732. Of them, 1661 have recovered.
Pakenham Springs Primary School has been shut down from Monday 15 June, initially for 24 hours, after two students from the same household outbreak tested positive.
One child was infectious when attending on Wednesday 10 June. The other child was not infectious while at school. Contact tracing is under way and the school will conduct a deep clean of affected classrooms and common areas.
There have been 184 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Victoria that have been acquired through unknown transmission.
Currently seven people are in hospital, including three patients in intensive care.
Of the new cases, nine have been linked to two outbreaks, one case detected in a returned traveller in hotel quarantine, one case identified through routine testing, and one case under investigation.A new outbreak was identified yesterday with two new cases linked to a patient of Monash Health. One of the new cases is a healthcare worker, and the second a household contact of the patient, taking the total in this outbreak to three.
Seven new cases reported yesterday were linked to an extended family outbreak in Melbourne’s northern and south-eastern suburbs. This takes the total in this outbreak to 11. Testing of family members has been undertaken and extensive contact tracing is under way.
Two of those linked to the family outbreak are students at St Dominic’s Primary School in Broadmeadows. One of these students was at school on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 June, when they were likely infectious.
One case reported yesterday from routine testing attended the Black Lives Matter protest in Melbourne. The source of infection is under investigation, but at this stage there are no links to the previous case who attended the protest. They were not thought to be infectious at the time of attending the protest. They are now in self-isolation and contact tracing is underway.
Anyone who attended the march is urged to remain vigilant and if symptoms develop should isolate at home and get tested as a matter of urgency.
