Coronavirus: Melbourne and Victoria’s active cases by postcode
Melbourne may have recorded its lowest daily increase in virus cases since June, but just one suburb became free of the stubborn infection, a status three northeast postcodes held until new cases hit. FULL LIST: See if your suburb is now virus-free.
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Just one suburb in Melbourne’s metro postal area became free of coronavirus as infections returned in three postcodes in the northeast.
Only one more metro postal area became virus-free overnight, 3191, which takes in the bayside suburb of Sandringham.
The 3088 postcode, which takes in Briar Hill, Greensborough and St Helena, recorded a new case after just one day of being free of coronavirus.
Outer northeastern suburbs Lower Templestowe (3107) and Doncaster (3108) also had new positive tests after having no active cases.
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Leader’s analysis of Department of Health and Human Services data also found the southeast Melbourne postcode of 3978 (Cardinia, Clyde North, Clyde) recorded nine new cases, just a day after it recorded three positive tests along with nearby 3805 (Fountain Gate, Narre Warren, Narre Warren South).
The data is based on the residential address provided by those testing positive, with Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton this morning saying the cases originated from Hallam and Narre Warren.
He urged residents in these suburbs to get tested if they experienced coronavirus symptoms.
Prof Sutton said there was certainly community transmission in the City of Casey.
“We haven’t linked all of the households definitively. They might be linked by a workplace that hasn’t been identified,” he said.
“They might be linked by going to a single setting that hasn’t been identified. It is a call out to everyone in that local government area and those suburbs in particular to come forward for testing.
“There will be other cases out there that we need to identify and testing is the opportunity to snuff this out.”
More than 500 postcodes across Victoria are presently COVID-19 free, including more than 60 postal areas designated as metro by Australia Post.
On a day where 35 new cases and six deaths were announced, active infections continued to fall across many hotspots, the postcode with the most infections — 3029 (Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit, Truganina) fell by one active cases to 77.
3030 — which takes in Werribee, Point Cook, Quandong, Corcoroc and Werribee South — fell by three active cases to 62.
Melbourne’s rolling 14-day daily average case number is 54.4 and regional Victoria is 3.9.
Premier Daniel Andrews hinted on the weekend that regional Victoria would be moving out of lockdown hopefully sometime this week.
Mr Andrews said “pouncing on outbreaks” had proven as a successful strategy in the regions and said these local teams would provide “the very beat and localised response”.
He said regional Victoria’s stage three lockdown restrictions could be eased as early as next week.
“If the trend continues, and the numbers are very promising, we’ll be able to take a step, or steps, as early as toward the end of next week,” he said.
“And that then avoids having to divide the state up into regions, have police enforce all of those boundaries.”
Talking to case numbers, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton on Sunday said the majority of the daily cases were now coming from aged care or known outbreaks while “10 to 20 per cent are unknown acquisitions”.
Prof Sutton earlier this month said he was confident the road map would work and the achieving numbers as low as five were possible.
He said that any setbacks did occur, they would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
“I hope there’s no moving back,” Prof Sutton said. “(But) I think we can address them on their merits.”
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Graphs courtesy of covid19data.com.au
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT VICTORIAN CASES
As of Monday, the total number of coronavirus cases in Victoria stands at 19,872.
The overall total has increased by 37 due to three cases being reclassified.
The state’s death toll is now 729, an increase of seven from Sunday. All seven deaths are linked to known outbreaks in aged care facilities.
There are 1075 active cases in Victoria — 82 fewer than Sunday. There are 513 related to aged care centres — 59 fewer than Sunday.
There have been 4291 cases indicating unknown transmission – six more than Sunday.
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