The health minister of the Australian state of Victoria has gone into a seven-day self-isolation following a family member testing positive for COVID-19. Martin Foley said that although his rapid antigen test produced a negative result, he had to enter quarantine as a close contact, causing him to miss out on the first half of the Victorian parliament sitting week. “I feel healthy, so I’ll continue working remotely and will be doing regular tests,” he said on Twitter on the afternoon of March 16. Earlier on the same day, the minister organised a press conference on vaccinations in the suburb of Sunshine in Melbourne. The Victorian government is pushing for booster vaccination among its residents before winter arrives as the state has reported a 10 percent increase in COVID-19 case numbers week-on-week. “We’re seeing over the last couple of weeks around a 10 percent underlying increase week-on-week of case numbers,” …