Two more teachers at a Victorian school have contracted Covid-19 after the first was linked to Sydney’s three infectious removalists.
The two positive cases at Bacchus Marsh Grammar were part of the state’s six new locally acquired infections on Friday.
There are now four teachers at the school who have tested positive after the first case – who lived in Barwon Heads – returned a positive test when they came into contact with a friend in the locked down Ariele apartment complex in Maribyrnong.
The apartment site was locked down for two weeks – starting on Monday – after three removalists from Sydney dropped off furniture there while infectious last week.
All four teachers were at the school’s Maddingley campus in Bacchus Marsh on Tuesday and Wednesday and teaching classes.
Students and their family members have been urged to get a Covid-19 test.
The state’s health department announced 10 new local infections about 8.50am, but four of those were previously revealed by Covid-19 commander Jeroen Weimar on Thursday afternoon.
Victoria now has 24 cases linked to the two incursions that jumped the border from Sydney’s deadly Delta outbreak.
The health department said all of the new cases on Friday were also linked to known outbreaks, which have spawned from a team of Sydney removalists who transited through the state and a family that returned to Melbourne’s north from a NSW red zone.
It comes as Victoria was plunged into a fifth Covid-19 lockdown overnight as case numbers continued to rise.
Victorians can only leave home for five reasons – shopping for essential food and supplies, exercise for up to two hours no more than 5km from home, care or caregiving, work or education if it can’t be done from home or to get vaccinated at the nearest possible location.
The lockdown is expected to last for at least five days.
The health department also confirmed one new case in hotel quarantine, with the number of active cases in Victoria at 36, up from 26 on Thursday.
Victoria records six new local Covid-19 cases as fifth lockdown begins - NEWS.com.au
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