Victoria has recorded 65 new cases of Covid-19 as regional areas enter their first day of lockdown and Melbourne is left reeling after a violent anti-lockdown was attended by 4000 on Saturday.
Handing over
Thatâs all from me on the blog today. Iâm handing over now to my colleague
Ashleigh McMillan, who is going to be in the blogging chair for the next couple of hours.
2.12pm on Feb 22, 2021
From socks to T-shirts: our national fashion editorâs take on âvaccination styleâ
By Melissa Singer
To break up the steady stream of photos/videos in the blog today of people getting vaccine shots (which I see has left a few readers feeling a bit squeamish in the comments), here are some of our national fashion editor
Melissa Singerâs verdicts on what she calls the âvaccination styleâ of some of our nationâs leaders and top officials.
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Psychiatric wards at two Melbourne hospitals have been locked down and contact tracing is underway after a worker tested positive to COVID-19.
Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed Victoria s new locally acquired case on Monday is a woman who attended a family function with a COVID-infected hotel quarantine worker on 6 February.
The woman is asymptomatic and was tested four times at the weekend, returning both negative and weak positive results. Given her exposure and the variability of those results, the public health team have taken the most conservative approach and have deemed her a positive case, Mr Andrews told reporters.
A Melbourne fruit market has been added to Victoria s growing list of coronavirus exposure sites - as the state recorded two new locally-acquired infections on day four of its snap five-day lockdown.
The two local cases reported on Tuesday are close household contacts of a previously confirmed case linked to the Holiday Inn, taking the outbreak to 19 infections.
Victorian health authorities said there were also two additional cases reported in hotel quarantine from 23,950.
The health update comes as a hot hotel in central Melbourne where Covid-19 infected guests are housed is being evacuated as water damage from a sprinkler system is repaired.