Victoria Identifies Further COVID-19 Exposure Sites

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 27: Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton speaks to the media on April 27, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Victoria's COVID-19 death toll rose to 17 following the death of a man in his 90s over the weekend, with just 67 active coronavirus cases in Victoria and 1265 people having recovered. Tough restrictions on movement and gatherings implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19 remain in place despite a steady decline in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia. All non-essential businesses remain closed or are restricted in operation, while public gatherings are limited to two people and social distancing measures require people to keep a safe 1.5m distance from one another. New South Wales and Victoria have enacted additional lockdown measures permitting police to fine people who breach the two-person outdoor gathering limit or leave their homes without a reasonable excuse. Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have all closed their borders to non-essential travellers and international arrivals into Australia are being sent to mandatory quarantine in hotels for 14 days. Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Victorian health authorities now have identified 10 exposure sites as they race to contain a Melbourne COVID-19 outbreak.

They hope genomic sequencing will establish the source of four new COVID-19 cases among a family in the city’s north.