Five New Local Virus Cases Recorded in Victoria

Five New Local Virus Cases Recorded in Victoria
A man crosses the normally busy intersection of Flinders street and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Australia on May 28, 2021. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
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The Victorian government has recorded five new local COVID-19 cases, bringing the size of the state’s current outbreak to 70 cases amid the Australian state’s fourth lockdown.

As Melbourne enters its second weekend of strict lockdown, authorities are combing through virus samples and genomic sequencing from across the country to determine how a Victorian family contracted the Delta coronavirus strain—previously known as the Indian strain of the novel coronavirus.

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