Victoria records 19 new local virus cases as exposure sites grow in Melbourne, including a restaurant and tourist spots

A popular restaurant has joined tourist spots in a growing list of Victorian exposure sites, as 19 new local Covid-19 cases were recorded overnight.

A restaurant where a Covid-19 infected employee was working has been added to the long list of exposure sites in Victoria, which has ballooned to 166 locations.

The worker is likely to have become infected with the virus after an ill customer visited the venue.

“There’s been a visit to Ms Frankie’s restaurant (in Cremorne) from a positive case that has seen three cases of transmission with a staff member and a patron sitting on nearby tables,” Health Minister Martin Foley told reporters on Saturday.

Victoria recorded 19 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases on Saturday — all of which were linked to current outbreaks.

In addition to the restaurant, several venues from the tourist hot spot of Phillip Island were added overnight, as well as sites at Collins Square in Docklands after an office worker tested positive.

Victoria now has 43 cases linked to the two incursions that jumped the border from Sydney’s deadly Delta outbreak.

The health department said all of the new cases on Saturday were also linked to known outbreaks, which spawned from a team of Sydney removalists who transited through the state and a family that returned to Melbourne’s north from a NSW red zone.

Victoria has recorded more positive Covid-19 cases. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Paul Jeffers

The following venues are among the latest listed as exposure sites, with tier 1 close contacts required to quarantine for 14 days, tier 2 contacts required to get tested and isolate until negative and tier 3 contacts asked to monitor for symptoms:

Cremorne: Ms Frankie, 24 Cremorne St, July 15 from 12.30pm to 11.59pm, tier 1;

Cremorne: Ms Frankie, 24 Cremorne St, July 14 from 4pm to 10.30pm, tier 1;

Docklands: Collins Square (Level 19, Tower 4), 727 Collins St, July 13 from 8.15am to 5.30pm, tier 1;

Docklands: Collins Square (Level 19, Tower 4), 727 Collins St, July 14 from 8.15am to 5.30pm, tier 1;

Docklands: Collins Square (Level 19, Tower 4), 727 Collins St, July 15 from 8.15am to 5.30pm, tier 1;

Docklands: End of Trip Facility in Collins Square (Car Park 1), 727 Collins St, July 13 from 7.55am to 8.30am, tier 1;

Docklands: End of Trip Facility in Collins Square (Car Park 1), 727 Collins St, July 15 from 7.50am to 8.30am, tier 1;

Docklands: Collins Square Ground Floor Foyer (Tower 4), 727 Collins St, July 14 from 9am to 9.05am, tier 2;

Glen Waverley Line: Train service from Holmesglen Station to Richmond Station, July 14 from 3.26pm to 3.48pm, tier 2; and

Glen Waverley Line: Train service from Richmond Station to Holmesglen Station, July 14 from 10.13pm to 10.34pm; tier 2.

A lone pedestrian crosses Bourke St in central Melbourne during a five day lockdown. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Andrew Henshaw

The following venues at the popular Victorian tourist destination of Phillip Island were also listed as exposure sites on Friday night:

Newhaven: Phillip Island Chocolate Factory, 930 Phillip Island Road, July 13 from 2.57pm to 3.35pm, tier 2;

Cowes: Phillip Island Bakery, 57-59 Thompson Ave, July 13 from 1pm to 1.45pm, tier 2;

Cowes: North Pier Hotel – Main Building, Ground Floor, 5 The Esplanade, July 12 from 7.22pm to 10.47pm, tier 1;

Cowes: Phillip Island Coffee Co, 1/29 Thompson Ave, July 14 from 9.10am to 9.50am, tier 2;

Summerlands: The Nobbies, Phillip Island Nature Parks, 1320 Ventnor Road, July 13 from 4.37pm to 5.10pm; tier 2;

Summerlands: The Nobbies, Phillip Island Nature Parks, 1320 Ventnor Road, July 12 from 3.35pm to 4.20pm; tier 2;

San Remo: Porter Fresh Poke Bowls, 117 Marine Parade, July 15 from 10am to 10.30am, tier 1;

Cowes: A Maze N Things Theme Park, 1805 Phillip Island Road, July 14 from 3.46pm to 4.48pm, tier 2;

Cowes: G’Day Tiger, 3/34 Thompson Ave, July 13 from 9.16am to 10.24am, tier 2;

Cowes: Coles Cowes, corner Church Street and Thompson Ave, July 12 from 4.30pm to 5.30pm, tier 1;

Ventnor: Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, 381 Back Beach Rd, July 13 from 11.10am to 1.17pm, tier 1;

Cowes: The Jolly Lolly Trolley, 25 Thompson Ave, July 14 from 3.24pm to 4.05pm, tier 2;

San Remo: San Remo Fishermans Co-op, 170 Marine Parade, July 14 from 6.15pm to 7.21pm, tier 1;

Cowes: Phillip Island Ten Pin Bowling and Entertainment, 91-97 Settlement Rd, July 14 from 1.15pm to 3.45pm, tier 1; and

Cowes: Grumpys Crazy Golf, 152 Thompson Ave, July 14 from 11am to 12.45pm, tier 1.

Phillip Island Ten Pin Bowling and Entertainment is an exposure site.

More teachers have been caught up in the state’s latest outbreak, with two positive cases at Bacchus Marsh Grammar part of the state’s six new locally acquired infections on Friday.

There are now four teachers at the school who have tested positive after the first case – who lived in Barwon Heads – returned a positive test when they came into contact with a friend in the locked down Ariele apartment complex in Maribyrnong.

The number of infected teachers at Kew’s Trinity Grammar has risen to three after two more cases were uncovered, and Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus and Ballarat’s Clarendon College have both been linked to positive cases.

The health department also confirmed no new cases in hotel quarantine, with the number of active cases in Victoria at 54 — up from 36 on Friday.

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