By Brendan Rees
Coronavirus infections have again climbed in Casey by 16 active cases in the 24 hours to Wednesday 5 August, according to the state’s latest health data.
Casey’s total active cases now stands at 326.
This figure is now has seventh highest local government area of Covid-19 cases across the state – surpassing active cases in the local government areas of Mooney Valley (238) and Melbourne (299).
Victoria has recorded 725 new cases of coronavirus in the 24 hours to Wednesday 5 August, with the total number of cases now at 13,035.
In neighbouring Greater Dandenong, active cases jumped by seven to 193 active cases and 55 in Cardinia. The state’s total has risen to 7227 active cases, including 729 active cases of infected health care workers.
There have been 15 new deaths from Covid-19 reported. They include a man in his 30s, three men and one woman in their 70s, three men and three women in their 80s and three men and one woman in their 90s.
Ten of the 15 new deaths are linked to known outbreaks in aged care facilities. To date, 162 people have died from coronavirus in Victoria.
There are 538 hospital patients with Covid-19, with 42 in intensive care.
Meanwhile, police have issued a total of 155 fines for breaching stay-at-home orders in the 24 hours to Wednesday 5 August. This included 36 fines for people failing to wear a face covering, five at vehicle checkpoints and 25 for curfew breaches.
Fines included a man on board a 9.46pm train heading to Flinders Street Station with no exemption; three people who had been drinking together between 5.30pm and 8.50pm in Docklands, and a man who was not wearing a mask at Flinders Street Station and lived more than 5km from the CBD.
Earlier in the week a man was fined after being intercepted by police at 3.20am who was driving to a fast food outlet in Casey.
