Victoria’s COVID outbreak spirals further out of control

Victoria has recorded another 450 locally acquired COVID cases over the past 24 hours – a fresh outbreak high:

Reported yesterday: 450 new local cases and 0 cases acquired overseas.
– 39,148 vaccines administered
– 42,765 test results received

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— VicGovDH (@VicGovDH) September 10, 2021

The overwhelming majority were mystery cases with only 75 of the 450 local cases linked to known cases and outbreaks.

The next chart plots the break-out in daily cases across Victoria:

Victoria’s daily cases are now tracking way above NSW’s at the same point in their outbreak:

Victoria’s local active cases have ballooned to nearly 2800:

And Victoria’s total active cases are also tracking ahead of NSW’s at the same point in time [note: NSW has changed the way it reports active cases, which has caused the latest sharp drop]:

Victoria is clearly losing control of the virus.