People exercise in Melbourne on Tuesday, the fifth day of a seven-day lockdown.
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Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said on Tuesday night that the virus was moving faster than any other strain we ve dealt with . We re seeing transmissions in settings and circumstances we ve never seen before, he said.
His comments came as a new positive case was identified in a Victorian who had travelled to New South Wales and back again, prompting a whole raft of new exposure sites.
For the first time, health officials have seen four or five cases where people were infected by strangers by casual contacts.
Victoria s coronavirus lockdown is unnecessary because there are no mystery cases and could have been avoided if the state government had set up a universal QR code check-in system, a diseases expert has told Daily Mail Australia.
Seven million Victorians are being ordered to stay at home in a circuit-breaker lockdown that started on Friday morning as an outbreak in Melbourne grew to 30 cases of the Indian variant of the disease.
But Professor Peter Collignon, of the Australian National University, said short lockdowns impose huge costs and do not help stop the spread of the virus as long as cases and contacts are isolated by a good tracing system.
Seven million people have been ordered to stay indoors in a circuit-breaker that started on Friday morning
Meanwhile in Britain people are returning to pubs, restaurants and hotels amid optimism in the vaccine
Sixty per cent of Britons have received at least one dose and more than a third are fully vaccinated. This compares to just 13 per cent of Australians to have had a jab, while less than 2 per cent are full vaccinated
The slow vaccine roll-out was one of the reasons Acting Victorian Premier James Merlino gave for the need to lockdown, as well as loose hotel quarantining in Adelaide where the patient zero was staying
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