Goya Dmytryshchak
Thirteen new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded today as Victoria’s lockdown was extended by seven days.
With the total number of active cases in Victoria at 85, the lockdown is set to end next Tuesday at 11.59pm.
Eighteen thousand primary close contacts of those cases had been identified, Victoria’s COVID commander Jeroen Weimar said.
Fourteen cases have been linked to the MCG, including nine who attended the Carlton-Geelong match on Saturday, July 10.
Residents of the Ariele Apartment complex in Maribyrnong tomorrow enter the second week of their 14-day quarantine after being exposed to COVID-positive removalists from Sydney.