Coronavirus Victoria: COVID-19 cases by council area

One Melbourne council area has had more than a quarter of Victoria’s 75 new cases of coronavirus, which is raging across the city’s north. But one municipality has gone from hotspot to almost virus-free in a week. See the latest numbers in your area.

Hume has had more than a quarter of Victoria’s 75 new coronavirus cases, leaving the northern Melbourne council area with 54 active cases.

And nearby council areas Melton, Moreland, Moonee Valley, Brimbank and Darebin also recorded strong increases as the virus continues its resurgence.

But the southeastern municipality of Cardina — which was last week declared a hotspot and is home to Pakenham, which has been declared a “priority suburb” — had no new infections and now only has one known active case.

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Within Victoria, 14 new cases are linked to outbreaks, 37 were identified through routine testing, 23 are under investigation and one detected in a returned traveller in hotel quarantine.

One case is linked to the North Melbourne family outbreak, which now has 22 total infections. Three are linked to the Brimbank family outbreak, taking its total to nine.

A link has been established between these two family outbreaks.

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Three new cases are linked to the Stamford Plaza Hotel outbreak, which now has 23 infections.

A Truganina family outbreak has three new infections, taking its total cases to five.

One new case is a close contact linked to the Wollert outbreak, which now has 10 total cases. Another three cases are linked to a new family outbreak in Patterson Lakes and Lysterfield – bringing its total number of cases to four.

Cases are also linked to a number of schools, including Queen of Peace Parish Primary School in Altona Meadows, Aitken Hill Primary in Craigieburn, Maribyrnong College, Footscray High School, Port Phillip Specialist School and Al-Taqwa College in Truganina.

All schools will undergo a deep clean of affected classroom and common areas, and close contacts will be required to quarantine.

Guardian Childcare and Education in Abbotsford has closed for cleaning after a child tested positive, while a healthcare worker at Richmond’s The Melbourne Clinic and a staff member at Red Cross’s processing facility Lifeblood were also diagnosed.

Keilor Downs, Broadmeadows, Maidstone, Albanvale, Sunshine West, Hallam, Brunswick West, Fawkner, Reservoir and Pakenham have been identified as priority areas.

Keilor Downs and Broadmeadows are presently being targeted for testing.

Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton encouraged people in these areas to be tested, especially if they had symptoms.

“Don’t take this disease lightly. if you feel unwell with any symptoms of coronavirus, however mild, you should stay home and get tested,” he said.

“If you have any fever, chills, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, and loss of sense of smell or taste — stay home, don’t go in to work and don’t visit friends and family. Get tested and stay at home until you get the result.”

He said practising good hygiene at home and outside was critical.

“Wash your hands regularly, cough and sneeze into a tissue or your elbow and try to avoid touching your face,” he said.

“Stay 1.5 metres away from anyone you don’t live with and avoid crowds, especially indoors. If you can keep working from home – you must keep working from home.”

WHY COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION CASES ARE KEY

There are now 271 cases that may have been acquired through community transmission.

Cases judged to likely be through community transmission are those contact-tracing investigators can’t find an obvious source for.

Monash University Professor Anton Peleg, The Alfred hospital’s infectious diseases department director said such cases could be coming from a range of sources.

“Given they’re unknown there’s a range of possibilities, possibly from people in the community that have very mild symptoms that are out and about, they either know or don’t know they have COVID-19, so that’s a challenge,” he said.

“This is why our goal is to identify as many people as we possibly can who have COVID-19 including their close contacts.”

Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said the spike in community transmission cases was concerning. “Obviously I’m concerned about the increasing number of cases in the past few days,” she said.

“I just want to reiterate the message to Victorians, take this issue seriously.”

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WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT VICTORIAN CASES

The total number of coronavirus cases in Victoria stands at 2099.

The overall total has increased by 71, with four cases reclassified.

The state’s death toll remains at 20.

Of the total number of cases, 1104 are men and 992 women, with ages ranging from babies to their early 90s.

Nine people are in hospital, including one patient in intensive care.

There are 125 active cases in Victoria and 1789 people have recovered. There are 288 known active cases.

More than 792,000 tests have been processed.

The department follows up and monitors all close contacts of confirmed cases and provides them with information and support. All close contacts must self-isolate for 14 days.