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Live Breaking News: Victoria records 26 Covid cases - NEWS.com.au

Live Breaking News: Victoria records 26 Covid cases - NEWS.com.au

Jul 21, 2021 1 min, 40 secs

Stay at home orders are helping contact tracers discover new cases of Covid-19 while the time spent infectious in the community is dropping.

Health Minister Martin Foley said it showed the measures are working and thanked those in isolation. .

"I'm sorry it's taken longer than people expected, and I'm sorry that some people have lost confidence in our government and our world-class health system as a result," he said.

The Theraputic Goods Authority has released a weekly report that said two people had died after recieving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

"Sadly two people with confirmed TTS following the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine died in the last week," it said.

Health Minister Martin Foley told reporters that the second group of removalists who illegally entered Victoria are now being dealt with by police.

“I am looking forward to the full weight of the law applied to those people who breached the arrangements,” he said.

Victoria's Covid-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar said the process is now much faster.

"It is entirely possible that people might have been put off [getting tested] two or three days ago by long testing queues," he said?

"We are seeing a fantastically high level of compliance, both with the isolation protocols in particular, but also with the people getting tested," Jeroen Weimar said

Phillip Island – two new cases

Mildura – two new cases (both household contacts)

City of Hume – two new cases (both household contacts)

Health Minister Martin Foley said the amount of close contacts is still a concern

"There is every chance that many of those 19,000 people who are monitoring as primary close contacts can turn positive

"We know that the overwhelming majority of people in that 19,000 primary close contact group are doing the right thing, and that was confirmed again yesterday when we had 436 home visits to those primary close contacts establishing nearly every single one of them were in fact in isolation

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