Live Breaking News: Victoria braces for more cases

It comes as the Victorian government is confident it is beating the Covid-19 outbreak despite recording the highest amount of daily cases in this outbreak.  

A surge of cases remaining in isolation has the Victoria government confident they are beating the recent Covid-19 outbreak on Wednesday.

Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the data shows their processes in quelling the virus are stopping the spread - despite an increase in case numbers today.

“Two days ago, there was only 6 per cent of our daily cases were fully isolating in quarantine. Today it is 73 per cent have been fully isolated during their period of infectivity,” he said.

“What this means is that our contact tracers and our restrictions are working in tandem as part of the public health team's tool kit to beat this virus back and to beat this outbreak back, step-by-step.”

The state recorded 22 locally transmitted cases from a record-breaking 60,000 tests in the latest reporting period. 

Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton did warn that a rise in cases is expected due to household transmission. 

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