Victoria has recorded another 79 locally acquired COVID cases over the past 24 hours:
Reported yesterday: 79 new local cases and no new cases acquired overseas.
– 33,611 vaccine doses were administered
– 50,535 test results were received
More later: https://t.co/lIUrl1hf3W#COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData [1/2] pic.twitter.com/U7MrLCjRVY— VicGovDH (@VicGovDH) August 26, 2021
Of the 79 locally-acquired cases, 53 are linked to known outbreaks and 26 are under investigation.
The next chart plots Victoria’s daily cases since the start of this outbreak with numbers having ratchetted up:
Stubbornly high.
And here’s how Victoria’s daily cases (staring at 7 August) are tracking against NSW’s outbreak at the same point in time (staring at 12 June):
Victoria tracking better than NSW.
Victoria’s active cases have risen to around 650 and are still rising fast:
Active cases rising fast.
The scheduled ending of Melbourne’s lockdown on 2 September is looking increasingly unlikely.
