Busy hospital is put on Melbourne's Covid exposure list alongside popular cafes, supermarkets and a dance studio - as fears grow Victoria's gruelling lockdown could be extended
A busy Melbourne hospital has been exposed to Covid-19, potentially sending hundreds into isolation with busy cafes and supermarkets also on alert.
An infected case attended the Joan Kirner Women's and Children's hospital in St Albans on August 6, visiting the pathology department and a cafe.
The state recorded 11 new local cases on Sunday.
The new cases include two schools, further raising expectations that Victoria's sixth lockdown due to end on Thursday night will be extended.
All 11 cases are linked to the current outbreaks but were infectious while in the community, sparking Covid testing at a Flemington tower block on Sunday.
Joan Kirner Women's and Children's hospital in St Albans has been listed as a Covid exposure site
A positive case visited the hospital's pathology department and a cafe on Friday
Victoria has had 11 new cases of coronavirus , including one at another Melbourne school, further raising expectations the state's lockdown will be extended
Among the new exposure sites are the pathology department, maternity assessment centre and cafe bar at the Joan Kirner Women's and Children's hospital.
Bunnings in Maribyrnong is also on alert, as is the Jolly Miller cafe in Caroline Springs.
Among the new cases reported on Sunday was a student at Mount Alexander College in Flemington in the city's northwest which has forced hundreds of students and staff into isolation.
NEW COVID EXPOSURE ALERTS IN MELBOURNE ON SUNDAY NIGHT
Tier 1: Anyone who attended the following venues is a close contact and should get tested and isolate for 14 days
St Albans: Dorevitch Pathology (Ground Floor) - Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital - August 6
St Albans: Maternity Assessment Centre (Level 3) - Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital - August 6
Niddrie: Tint a Car Essendon - August 5
Caroline Springs: The Jolly Miller Cafe - CS Square - August 2, August 3
Tier 2: Anyone who attended the following venues in a casual contact and should get tested and isolate until they test negative
St Albans: Cafe Bar (Main Corridor) - Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital - August 6
Maribyrnong: Bunnings Maribyrnong - August 4
Tarneit West: 7-Eleven Tarneit West - August 2
Caroline Springs: First Choice Liquor Caroline Springs - August 5
West Footscray: Pepin's Pharmacy - August 5
Caroline Springs: Coles - CS Square - August 5
Flemington: ZJWD Convenience Store - August 3, 4, 5, 6
Deer Park: United Petroleum Deer Park - August 1
Tier 3: Anyone who attended the following venues should monitor for symptoms
St Albans: Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital (All other areas) - August 6
All of the 11 cases are linked to current outbreaks, but were out in the community while infectious. Pictured here are two women at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market on Sunday
The school is close to several high-rise public housing apartment blocks and health officials are on site testing residents of units at 130 Racecourse Road.
The family of the infected student had lived there but moved out shortly before the pupil tested positive.
Seventeen neighbours on the family's floor have been deemed close contacts but tested negative overnight.
Mr Andrews said testing was continuing on residents in the rest of the apartment block with more than 200 results already coming back negative.
Health officials are on site testing residents of units at 130 Racecourse Road in Flemington which is close to Mount Alexander College where a student has tested positive
He stressed the family of the infected student was not living in the apartment block while he was infected.
'They are not at the tower,' he said on Sunday.
'They had moved to another house as part of a permanent relocation.
'There was a member of the family going back and forth to do the last bit of tidying up, packing up moving their furniture and things out.'
Mount Alexander College principal Dani Angelico confirmed the infection in a message to told pupils and staff: 'It is with much regret that I inform you that there is a confirmed COVID case at MAC.'
A student at Mount Alexander College in Flemington in Melbourne's northwest has tested positive for Covid which has forced hundreds of students and staff into isolation
Victoria's Health Department told the school the student had attended while infectious on August 3 and 4.
Premier Andrews stressed that anyone who has been informed they were in contact with positive cases needs to respect the rules and stay home.
'This is why if you are asked to stay home and isolate, please follow the instructions provided to you and to the broader community, these rules are in place, as painful and as challenging as they are, they are in place to drive cases down,' he said.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VICTORIA'S NEW LOCKDOWN
- The lockdown is scheduled to run from Thursday August 5 at 8pm for seven days
- There will be only five lawful reasons to leave home
1. Essential shopping
2. Two hours of daily exercise within a 5km radius
3. To seek or provide medical care
4. Work or study that cannot be done from home.
5. To go and get vaccinated.
- Face masks will be mandatory indoors and outdoors
- Schools will return to online learning
- 5km travel limit for essential tasks, including shopping and exercise
- If your business was closed during the last lockdown, they must close this lockdown
- Hospitality open for takeaway only
- General retail is closed, as well as all non-essential businesses
- Visitors to the home are banned
- Funerals capped at ten people, while weddings are banned
- Professional sport can proceed but with no crowds
- Outdoor parks and play areas are open, but those indoors must close