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Victoria records no new local COVID-19 cases for second day

Lara Pearce
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Victoria has recorded a second day without any new community-acquired cases of COVID-19.

There were also no new cases detected in the state's hotel quarantine system.

The promising figures come from 10,339 coronavirus tests conducted in the previous 24 hours.

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It comes after Health Minister Martin Foley said that Victoria's Hotel Inn cluster is "increasingly under control".

"Another day of no locally acquired cases does give our team increasing confidence that the Holiday Inn cluster is increasingly under control but it's far from being over and vigilance needs to be maintained," Mr Foley said yesterday.

Victoria Health Minister Martin Foley said yesterday that the Holiday Inn outbreak was "increasingly under control". 9News

"We are still approaching that outbreak with the upmost vigilance and caution."

Three new locally acquired cases were reported on Friday - two parents and a child from the one family, all of whom are primary close contacts of the Holiday Inn hotel outbreak.

As a result of the positive case, Victorian health authorities issued an alert for a low level tier-three risk exposure site: Coles Express at 21 Ardena Court in East Bentleigh.

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Anyone who visited the location between 1pm to 1.40pm on February 18 should monitor symptoms and get tested if they develop symptoms.

Victoria will begin vaccinating people who are most at-risk of contracting COVID-19 tomorrow.

The first Victorians to get the Pfizer jab for coronavirus will be frontline workers under phase 1A, including hotel quarantine workers staff and port of entry workers who are on the forefront of the state's quarantine system.

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