New COVID cases
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VICTORIA’S long run of days without COVID-19 community transmission was broken just before the new year when a case was recorded in Mentone.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced on 30 December that three new cases had been identified in Mentone, Mitcham, and Hallam.
As of 11 January there are five active cases of COVID-19 among residents in the Kingston local government area.
The DHHS has also included multiple local locations on their list of COVID-19 exposure sites.
People who visited the Woodlands Golf Club bar in Mordialloc on 28 December between 4.40pm and 5.15pm were asked to get tested and isolate for 14 days. A positive COVID-19 case had attended the clubhouse bar. Visitors to the golf course between 12pm and 6pm on that day were asked to monitor for symptoms.
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Victoria has gone a second straight day without a new locally acquired COVID-19 case, although a technical issue has left thousands awaiting test results.
There were no local cases reported in Victoria on Friday, with the sole new infection recorded in hotel quarantine.
It pushes the number of active cases in the state up to 39.
However, some 10,000 test results were delayed on Thursday as one of Victoria s private pathology labs experienced a technical outage that delayed negative test results. The outage does not affect the total positive cases reported, the health department tweeted on Friday. Yesterday one of our private pathology lab partners experienced a technical outage delaying negative test results to some individuals. The outage does not affect the total positive cases reported. (2/3) VicGovDHHS (@VicGovDHHS) January 7, 2021
Victoria's first mystery case in two months has been genomically linked to Sydney's northern beaches outbreak, although its original source remains unknown.
New South Wales records no new cases of coronavirus as new alerts are issued for venues in western Sydney and the south coast
New South Wales has recorded no new local cases of coronavirus on Thursday but venues are on alert
Infectious patients have visited several venues in the western Sydney suburb of Wentworthville
There are also concerns the virus will spread on the state s south coast after a positive case visited