Victoria has recorded two new cases of COVID-19 linked to the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The latest cases are in addition to the ten local cases in the 24 hours to Thursday morning, all of which were previously reported.They are linked to level two of the MCC member’s reserve.Mr Weimar said the two new cases were sitting apart from each other and there were no obvious relationship between them.between the individuals that we know "We do not believe they are known contacts of the other two positive cases we know were there.
Mr Weimar said contact tracers had burnt through seven rings of connections, which he described as the fastest response ever seen to an outbreak.“What we've got is two separate incursions into Victoria over the last three or four days, two chains of transmission, at least one is moving very actively and very aggressively across the state.”
The state was now dealing with 75 exposure sites, 1500 primary close contacts and 5000 secondary contacts.
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