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.
Victoria s health authorities will not rule out extending the state s snap five-day Covid lockdown as new exposure sites are revealed and new details emerge about the Coburg dinner virus spread.
Sunday s two new local coronavirus cases - a toddler and an unrelated hotel quarantine worker - were linked to the Holiday Inn cluster, which has now reached 16 cases.
Both had also attended a private dinner on Sydney Road, Coburg, on February 6.
Melbourne s popular Queen Victoria Market fruit and vegetable section has been named as a new exposure spot on Thursday February 11 from 8.25am to 10.10am along with the women s toilets in section 2.
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Victoriaâs public health team was stymied for several days in identifying a high-risk exposure site that a hotel quarantine worker with coronavirus visited, because she had initially returned an âexceptionally rareâ false-negative result.
Authorities are confident they have ring-fenced a growing COVID-19 cluster linked to a private function at the Coburg site on February 6, after an additional two people who attended the event tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday.
The venue (centre) in Sydney Road, Coburg, that has been listed as a COVID-19 exposure site.
Credit:Ashleigh McMillan
On Sunday evening, the government also released a new list of potential virus exposure sites on the morning of Thursday, February 11, including three tram routes and the Queen Victoria Market. It asked anyone present during the hours nominated to get tested and isolate.
Victoria recorded one new locally acquired case of coronavirus on Monday
Premier Daniel Andrews and ABC host Leigh Sales engaged in fiery exchange
Ms Sales grilled Mr Andrews over need for a snap statewide five-day lockdown Are you going into. lockdown every time you have two or three new cases?
Mr Andrews refused to say whether the lockdown will end on Wednesday