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La Trobe University library and Tooronga Village Coles are among the latest additions to the 150-plus COVID-19 exposure sites listed by the Department of Health.
The new additions were made on Saturday afternoon and the list continues to change as new locations are found or new positive cases emerge with five new cases listed for yesterday and authorities acknowledging there is still the potential for more cases to emerge in the days to come.
The new locations are listed below. You can check the government’s list here and check our interactive list below.
Bundoora
La Trobe University, Library Level 1
Plenty Road & Kingsbury Drive
Bundoora VIC 3086
25/05/2021 11:45am - 3:00pm
Case attended venue
Tier 1
Craigieburn
Edu-Kingdom College
67A Hamilton Street
Craigieburn VIC 3064
22/05/2021 1:20pm - 5:00pm
Case attended venue
Tier 1
Fingal
Peninsula Hot Springs (Reception only)
140 Springs Lane
Fingal VIC 3939
21/05/2021 3:00pm - 3:45pm
Case attended reception area only
Tier 1
Glen Iris
Coles Tooronga Village
Tooronga Road
Glen Iris VIC 3146
23/05/2021 6:10pm - 6:27pm
Case attended venue
Tier 2
South Yarra
Taco Bell Chapel Street
352 Chapel Street
South Yarra VIC 3141
23/05/2021 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Case attended venue
Tier 1
Fiona Keele can hardly wait to get the band back together. Now it’s lockdown, she can.
Keele, 48 of Cheltenham, and her husband Richard, 41, decided the way to keep family connected last time was to play online trivia with her in-laws. That worked. So as soon as acting premier James Merlino announced new stay-at-home restrictions, she booked in to play.
‘Screen’ isn’t a dirty word in the Keele household: (L-R) Caitlin, Fiona Richard and Ella.Credit:Simon Schluter
It hasn’t been without its challenges. Richard was in charge of scribing for the team. Richard’s dad can get a tiny bit bossy. Yet they are all coming back for more. Two-time trivia champions for the win.
Australians are learning to deal with lockdown loneliness. According to new research from the Australia Institute, we are now much closer to our friends and families than ever before. Three in five Australians feel more connected to friends and family in 2021 compared to 2020.
Health Minister Martin Foley says four of the five locally acquired COVID-19 cases recorded in the state on Saturday were related to a worker from a large food distribution centre who travelled across Melbourne over a 10-day period.
The total number of cases linked to the cluster has climbed to 35, with the other new case linked to the Port Melbourne workplace outbreak.
Health Minister Martin Foley.Credit:Justin McManus
While all of Saturday’s cases had known links to previous cases, the Health Minister said it remained a “day-by-day” proposition whether Victoria’s seven-day lockdown would end as planned.
“It is too early to make that announcement. Today is the second day of seven days,” he said.
“We will continue to work through the evidence as it comes in, day by day, and keep Victorians informed”.
Despite constant messages from the government, suppliers and supermarkets, it appears some Victorians still made a run on toilet paper when the lockdown was called.
Mitchell Scott tweeted this picture today from a Melbourne supermarket, there have been several other pictures doing the rounds too.
Both Coles and Woolworths have said there is plenty of toilet paper and other vital items, so there is no need to stock up.
Sadly shoppers at this store at Stud Park, Rowville in the outer south-east must have missed the message.
There were a record 43,458 vaccine doses administered in Victoria, beating Thursday’s previous record of 41,389.
There were 121,610 vaccine doses administered nationwide on Friday, down slightly from Thursday’s record tally of 124,871.
Victoria has now reached 1 per cent of its total population being fully vaccinated, 15.2 per cent having received one vaccine dose.
But the proportion of Victorians who have received two vaccine doses is likely higher than what is being reported in the data because the federal health department, which has administered about 60 per cent of the state’s vaccine doses, does not provide a breakdown of first and second dose numbers.
You can check out the daily vaccination progress of your state or territory using the interactive table below.
By default it shows a progress bar, but click one of the arrows for each state/territory and it will extend out into a graph. To bring up the daily totals, click the ‘daily’ button.
You will notice that there are typically five days in a row of high dose numbers followed by two days of very low numbers – that is because the high days are weekdays and the low days are weekends.
Some states, such as Queensland, show a single-day surge on April 18 that exceeds any day since - this is because of delayed dose data being added to the state’s tally, not because there was a stampede to get vaccinated on that day.
La Trobe University library and Tooronga Village Coles are among the latest additions to the 150-plus COVID-19 exposure sites listed by the Department of Health.
The new additions were made on Saturday afternoon and the list continues to change as new locations are found or new positive cases emerge with five new cases listed for yesterday and authorities acknowledging there is still the potential for more cases to emerge in the days to come.
The new locations are listed below. You can check the government’s list here and check our interactive list below.
Bundoora
La Trobe University, Library Level 1
Plenty Road & Kingsbury Drive
Bundoora VIC 3086
25/05/2021 11:45am - 3:00pm
Case attended venue
Tier 1
Craigieburn
Edu-Kingdom College
67A Hamilton Street
Craigieburn VIC 3064
22/05/2021 1:20pm - 5:00pm
Case attended venue
Tier 1
Fingal
Peninsula Hot Springs (Reception only)
140 Springs Lane
Fingal VIC 3939
21/05/2021 3:00pm - 3:45pm
Case attended reception area only
Tier 1
Glen Iris
Coles Tooronga Village
Tooronga Road
Glen Iris VIC 3146
23/05/2021 6:10pm - 6:27pm
Case attended venue
Tier 2
South Yarra
Taco Bell Chapel Street
352 Chapel Street
South Yarra VIC 3141
23/05/2021 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Case attended venue
Tier 1
Age reader Steve has finally had his vaccine jab after waiting almost six hours in line.
We reported on Steve’s long wait in a blog post at 2.25pm today after he opted to join the walk-in line at Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre this morning following ‘hours’ spent trying to call and book an appointment in recent days.
He joined the line at 8.50am only to find technical issues with the computer system had slowed the line to a crawl.
Steve, who is in his 40s, finally received his vaccine dose just before 3pm.
Upon leaving, he estimated the wait for those left in line was down to an hour or less.
The state government said the technical issues were ‘remedied’ by early afternoon and they apologised for the delay.
The government has updated information on the department of health website about approximate waiting times and vaccine hub locations.
Isolation won’t be a problem for Melbourne University arts student Sobur Dhieu during Victoria’s snap lockdown, but finding a quiet place and even the uninterrupted use of her own computer might be.
Ms Dhieu, 20, lives in Brookfield with her mum, dad and eight siblings, six of whom are school students ranging from twins in prep to a brother in year 12.
The Dhieu family (front left to right) Nyibol, 3 and Sobur 20 (back left to right) Adut 5, Athian, 5, Makuei, 7 dad Andrew, 50, Mayen, 17 and Makuei, 7 mostly worked out of one room together during remote learning.Credit:Joe Armao
It’s noisy, crowded and chaotic, but the family was “trying to make the best of it” as they began an unexpected week stuck at home together, including renewing their 2020 lockdown ritual of a Friday night family movie night, she said.
“I just think they are getting on. My siblings are happy to be at home not having to go to class today but I think they do understand it’s going to be hard next week.”
Do you wonder what it has been like for those people stuck in long, slow lines at the vaccination hubs today?
Technical faults this morning saw the lines slow to a crawl for several hours although state government officials said the issues were remedied when speaking at their early afternoon press conference.
People lining up for their Covid 19 vacination at the Exhibition Centre in Melbourne earlier this week.Credit:Wayne Taylor
But for those still in the lines that was of little comfort.
Steve is an Age reader who reached out to us at lunchtime.
He joined the line at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre at 8.50am and he was still in line just before 2.30pm.
“I am in my 40s and telephone booking has been impossible,” Steve said.
“I’ve been trying for hours over the last few days.”
One thing that frustrated Steve was a lack of information for those in the line about what the process was and what lay ahead of them.
But he could see the bright side when a staff member gave an impromptu performance on the piano accordion during the afternoon.
“What’s frustrating us that we have been told nothing since we arrived,” Steve said.
“Not told what happens in the next room. Information is key to keeping us engaged.
“At least we have a lovely medico playing the piano accordion entertaining us.”
UPDATE: Steve tells us he finally received his vaccine jab just before 3pm this afternoon making his wait almost six hours.
Health Minister Martin Foley says four of the five locally acquired COVID-19 cases recorded in the state on Saturday were related to a worker from a large food distribution centre who travelled across Melbourne over a ten-day period.
The total number of cases linked to the cluster has climbed to 35, with the other new case linked to the Port Melbourne workplace outbreak, Mr Foley said.
The Health Department highlighted 20 more exposure sites of concern on Friday evening linked to the delivery worker, who COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar said is believed to have contracted the virus from case five in the City of Whittlesea Cluster.
The person, who was among the 12 new cases reported on Thursday, visited a number of food stores across seven suburbs, including Reservoir, Epping and Dandenong, during his infectious period.
Day two of our lockdown diaries is here.
What are the ways you know you’re back in lockdown?
Senior culture writer Karl Quinn lists the seven signs (including questions about the maskless) and they’re spot on.
David Allegretti’s husky Lupo: “He loves lockdowns.”
Fashion editor Melissa Singer is cooking up a storm and has a nesting query about pillows.
Freelance writer David Allegretti struggles again with sleep and gets an unwanted call from the hospital, but has some comfort from his husky, Lupo.
Amanda Dunn, an editor from The Conversation, feels like “the world’s worst stage mum” during her daughter’s virtual ballet class.
Don’t forget to bookmark this article and check back tomorrow at 12pm for day three.
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