MELBOURNE — Australia’s Victoria state reported five new local COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including in a worker at a Melbourne aged care facility where not all of the residents have been vaccinated.
The infections on the third day of a week-long lockdown raise the total to 40 in the latest cluster, which started with a returning overseas traveller who tested positive after leaving a quarantine hotel.
Victoria’s acting premier, James Merlino, said at a briefing that 70% of the traveller’s close contacts have so far tested negative for the coronavirus.
“But it is true to say that this remains a day-by-day proposition,” Merlino said.
The case at the aged care facility was o…
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