Melbourne’s two-week hard lockdown, which was scheduled to finish at midnight Thursday, is set to be extended after another 22 local COVID cases were recorded over the past 24 hours, which follows 21 cases on Saturday and 25 cases on Sunday.
Of the 22 locally-acquired cases, 17 are linked to known outbreaks and 14 have been in isolation throughout their infectious period.
As shown below, Victoria has average more than 20 daily cases over the past week, with infection numbers stubbornly refusing to decline.
Averaging above 20 new cases over the past seven days.
There are now 201 active recorded COVID cases across the state – the highest count since last year’s Winter-Spring Outbreak, which saw Melbourne shut down for 14 consecutive weeks:
Active cases still rising.
A three week lockdown for Melbourne is now looking likely.
