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State lockdown extended By Goya Dmytryshchak Thirteen new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded yesterday 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 today enter the second week of their 14-day quarantine after being exposed to COVID-positive removalists from Sydney. An infectious man in his 60s from the apartments had attended level two of the MCC Members’ Reserve at the MCG on July 10, caught two trams and a train, and visited Young and Jackson and a number of other places. He attended Highpoint Shopping Centre on Friday, July 9. He attended the game with his friend from Barwon Heads, a teacher at Bacchus Marsh Grammar school, who tested positive. The man’s parents in Craigieburn tested positive. Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday announced there would be no further as-of-right red zone travel for two weeks except for compassionate exemptions
and authorised workers. “The trend is good but we need more time to be absolutely certain that all that we’ve given and all that we’ve done has been successful,” he said. “There’s very little margin for error in this. Leaving it smouldering, this Delta variant, leaving it with a handful of cases even, really does mean that you almost certainly will have a further outbreak, further lockdowns and potentially finish up in a situation where you’re locked down, not for days, but you’re locked down for months.” He said nine of the new cases recorded yesterday were fully isolated for their infectious period. Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton said the current outbreak had touched all of Victoria. “Much of that is due to the superspreading events early on in this outbreak.” As at Tuesday, tier one exposure sites included Altona Sports Centre at Altona Meadows, Jesus is the Way Christian Church at Footscray, Chemist Warehouse Maribyrnong in Maidstone, Edgewater Boulevard Pharmacy in Maribyrnong and Highpoint shops SkinKandy, The Reject Shop, Ferguson Plarre and Bras N Things. Tier two sites include Footscray railway station, Coles Williamstown, ALDI Maribyrnong at 11 Edgewater Boulevard, and Highpoint’s North Carpark Level one and Food Court Level one (near Strike bowling bar). Details: www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/ exposure-sites
Carmen Machuca with her great-grandchildren Alexander, 13, and Leonardo, 10. (Supplied)
COVID-19 survivor celebrates Australia’s oldest COVID-19 survivor on Tuesday celebrated her 100th birthday, albeit in lockdown. Carmen Machuca was the first resident to become infected in the May/June virus outbreak at Maidstone’s Arcare Aged Care home. The second was her close friend in the next room, Jesus Guisande, aged 90. The two had lived together since arriving in
Australia in the 1960s, along with Mrs Machuca’s late husband, Joseph. Mrs Machuca and Mr Guisande moved from Sydenham into the home together. Both had received their first Pfizer jab before falling ill and both have made a full recovery. ■ Continued:
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