Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews refuses to reveal when he will return to work as Melburnians endure a prolonged exit out of his government-imposed lockdown.
A COVID-positive Victorian family which travelled to parts of southern NSW has a different coronavirus variant to other people associated with the current Greater Melbourne outbreak.
Two Covid cases among the 63 in Victoria s outbreak have been declared false positives by health officials.
The Department of Health issued a statement just before 6pm Thursday saying the cases were a woman who was thought to have caught the virus at a Metricon display house and a man at the Brighton Beach Hotel. Following analysis by an expert review panel and retesting through the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, two cases have been declared false positives, the department said.
Two cases in Victoria s latest Covid cluster declared false positives (pictured: testing staff in full PPE at the Deer Park testing facility in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on June 1, 2021)