All but one of Victoria’s latest locally acquired COVID-19 cases were active in the community while potentially infectious, as the state identifies some 10,000 “primary close contacts.” Another 19 diagnoses were confirmed on Saturday, taking to 43 the state’s total number of virus cases for the current outbreak as all of Victoria remains in a five-day lockdown. Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the 18 people who were in the community before testing positive were moving about for an average of 1.7 days each and that was reassuring. “That figure is a vindication of the going-hard-and-going-early strategy that the public health team has put to the government,” he said. The latest patients include at least two school students, and there are 14 cases linked to an “index case”—a man aged in his 60s—who attended last weekend’s Geelong-Carlton AFL game at the MCG. The number of exposure sites has reached 168, …
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