Victoria records 26 new local cases as Prahran Market closed for cleaning - The Age

Victoria has recorded 26 new local cases of COVID-19 as health authorities declared a large market in Melbourne’s inner south-east a tier-1 exposure site after a positive case visited several stalls during a trading day last week.

All of Thursday’s community cases are linked to the current outbreaks, and 24 of the 26 cases were in quarantine throughout their entire infectious period.

One person only stopped at a regional petrol station, he said, while the other case, linked to the AAMI Park rugby union match outbreak, was in the community for a single day.

There are now 146 active cases of coronavirus in Victoria, 133 of which are linked to the two outbreaks seeded from NSW.

The figures come as NSW recorded a record 124 new COVID-19 cases, with at least 48 of those cases active in the community while infectious.

A case in the Greater Bendigo area in regional Victoria was among the new cases of COVID-19 reported on Thursday, the first positive case in the local government area in almost six months.

There are now at least six active cases in regional Victoria linked to the new outbreak.

Mildura, in Victoria’s north-west, recorded two new cases on Thursday, taking its total to four active cases, and another case was reported in the Wellington local government area this week.