Victoria has recorded no new local COVID-19 cases, despite concerns around a flight attendant with coronavirus who stayed overnight in the city last week.
There were 17,617 test results received yesterday, and 14,294 doses of vaccine were administered at state-run sites.
Health authorities yesterday added Melbourne Airport and the Holiday Inn Express in Southbank to the state's list of exposure sites.
The flight attendant with COVID-19 flew in to Melbourne on Friday, on Virgin Airways flight VA334, and stayed overnight at the Holiday Inn Express.
Premier Daniel Andrews will return to his role today, after an extended period of leave following a serious spinal injury.
No new Victorian cases so far from Virgin flights
Health authorities have contacted passengers on Friday's Virgin flight from Brisbane to Melbourne, on which the flight attendant with coronavirus was working.
They also worked on a flight between Melbourne and Sydney the following day.
University of Melbourne epidemiologist Nancy Baxter said she did not think the Virgin flights would develop into superspreader events as many had feared.
"All these people are wearing masks, the airflow in aeroplanes is very good, there has been transmission in flights but not as many as you'd expect, and they have a flight manifest," Professor Baxter said.
"So, although I understand people panicking when they saw that, and I had this feeling of panic too, I don't think that these are going to be the superspreader events that are going to send all of Australia into lockdown."
Professor Baxter called for flight attendants to be vaccinated as a priority.
The Transport Workers Union also wrote to the Prime Minister, calling for frontline domestic cabin crew to be included in the priority vaccination list.
More to come.
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