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There were more than 49,000 tests recorded on Monday.
The NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, said she hoped to make an announcement by Thursday at the latest on the future of the lockdown.
“I would love to say exactly when the end date will be but that is up to all of us in part. When we get that number of at least 21 people who have been infectious in the community as close to zero as possible is when we will be able to exit lockdown,” she said. “That is the target we need to aim for.”
Fairfield residents were being asked to stay home unless they absolutely had to leave. The public health order in the state was amended on Tuesday to force essential workers who live in the Fairfield local government area and leave the area for work to get tested every three days, and any essential worker in greater Sydney who travels to regional NSW to get tested weekly.
The NSW chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, said people who live in apartment buildings should not be gathering in common areas, even citing putting the rubbish out as a risk.
“This is a reminder of the risk that Covid poses and why we were requiring masks … in indoor common property areas of residential premises and also discourage social gatherings or any gatherings across household groups in those apartment buildings as well,” she said.
Residents of an apartment building in Maribyrnong were delivered a letter on Tuesday ordering them to go into isolation for 14 days, after a Covid-positive removalist worked at the address on 8 July.
Victorian health authorities are on high alert after three new locally acquired cases.
Two of those infections were reported on Monday and the third case is a household contact of a known case who has been isolating throughout their infectious period.
The results come from 23,470 tests and there are currently 20 active cases in the state.
The new cases brings an end to Victoria s 12-day streak of no new local infections.
Reported yesterday: 2 new local cases, 1 case acquired interstate and no new cases acquired overseas.
- 14,384 vaccine doses were administered
- 23,470 test results were received
It comes after one infected NSW furniture removalists have forced an apartment complex in Melbourne to be locked down, with residents told they cannot leave unless it s an emergency.
Two of the family members were already announced as positive coronavirus cases on Monday.
Authorities said three members of the family flew into Melbourne from Sydney on 4 July, while a fourth drove back on Thursday.
They all tested negative shortly after arrival but two became symptomatic and were swabbed again on Sunday, returning positive results on Monday morning.
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Neither the flight nor Melbourne Airport has been listed as exposure sites, as the family tested negative for the virus two days after their arrival and other passengers are already self-isolating as part of their red zone permit conditions.
Meanwhile, more than 150 people at an apartment complex in Melbourne s northwest is in lockdown after a group of infectious NSW removalists visited the site.