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Not out of there after all.Victoria's largest coronavirus cluster outside of aged care is centred around five households whose residents broke the stay-at-home rules to travel outside their 5km radius and visit each other, Victorian health authorities say.
Key points:
- Jeroen Weimar, from the health department, said that "limited" and "relatively infrequent contact" had already resulted in 34 cases
- The five households are in Hallam, Clyde, Narre Warren South and Cranbourne North
- Premier Daniel Andrews said it was a reminder to follow the rules because there was often no infection control in relaxed settings
The first positive test in the Casey cluster was recorded two weeks ago, on September 4, and it has since grown to 34 cases.
Jeroen Weimar, head of community engagement and testing at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), said the cluster in Melbourne's south-east was spread across five households.
"We have had to undertake a significant and painstaking contact-tracing exercise to actually get to the bottom of which other households were involved and how those households are connected," he said.
"What we've seen is obviously some normal travel that we would expect people to conduct in order to get the necessary things for life … but we've also seen in this particular cluster visiting of houses beyond the 5km radius."
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He said the households were located in the suburbs of Hallam, Clyde, Narre Warren South and Cranbourne North, which are all within the City of Casey local government area.
"In this particular cluster we have had, unfortunately, some members of those households visiting other households," Mr Weimar said.
"It is that limited amount of contact, relatively infrequent contact, between these five households that has now meant that we have 34 people in five houses experiencing or living with a very real threat of the coronavirus."
DHHS is now encouraging anyone in the Casey and Dandenong areas to get tested for coronavirus, even if their symptoms are extremely mild.
Active COVID-19 cases in Victorian postcodes
