Number of COVID-Delta Strain Infections Grows as Officials Consider Home Quarantine as a Potential Source

Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton leaving a press conference in Melbourne, Australia on Sept. 14, 2020. Daniel Pockett/Getty Images

Four of Victoria’s new COVID-19 cases are of the more infectious Delta variant, with Health Minister Martin Foley confirming on Monday the cases were linked to the state’s outbreak of the Delta variant, also known as B.1.617.2, which began in the suburb of West Melbourne.

The cases are three children and an adult and bring the total number of cases in the outbreak to 14.