Find out if there are any active coronavirus cases in your postcode - The Age

The number of Victorian postcodes where at least one resident is known to be infected with COVID-19 continues to drop, state health department data shows.

As of Thursday afternoon, 73 of the state's 694 populated postcodes were home to at least one active coronavirus case, down from 84 last week.

You can see the number of active COVID-19 cases in your area, the current infection rate and whether case numbers there have increased or decreased in the past seven days using the map below. (This information is also available in table format at the bottom of this article)

The data shows there are no longer any Victorian postcodes with 20 or more active cases, and no postcodes with an active case rate of more than one in every 1000 residents.

That's a stark contrast with when the state reached the peak of its second wave in early August, when there were nearly 100 postcodes with 20 or more active cases and 111 postcodes with an active case rate above one in every 1000 residents.

The graph below shows how the number of postcodes with active coronavirus cases has decreased since August 14:

Of the 84 populated postcodes with at least one active case last week, 50 have seen a drop in active case numbers over the past seven days.

Infection numbers have remained stubbornly unchanged in 21 postcodes and case numbers have increased in 13 postcodes.

Eight postcodes that last week did not have known active cases, recorded an increase in cases as of Thursday.

One of these postcodes is Kilmore, in Victoria's north, where there are three active coronavirus cases. This area was visited by an infected Melbourne resident who then dined at the town's Oddfellows Cafe.

The table below includes all the postcodes that have recorded a net increase in active cases over the past week:

As of Thursday, there are 203 active cases in Victoria, the lowest tally since late June.

Of those 203 active cases, 199 are people who live in the metropolitan Melbourne region. The remaining four are in regional Victoria: three in Kilmore and one in Mildura. However, in Thursday's coronavirus update, Premier Daniel Andrews flagged that the Mildura case may turn out to be a false positive (essentially where the test got it wrong).

To put the decrease in active cases in perspective, at the height of the second wave there were nearly 7000 active cases in Victoria.

You can view the number of active cases in your postcode in this searchable database:

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