Vic again records no new local virus cases

Victoria has recorded zero new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 as authorities are preparing to begin deploying the state’s vaccine.

There were no domestic or international cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in Victoria on Saturday, with more than 10,300 tests performed and reported on Sunday.

Twenty-five active cases remain in the state.

There were no cases of local virus in Victoria for the second consecutive day after three members of the same family were recorded as COVID positive on Thursday.

Twenty protesters were arrested in Melbourne on Saturday after a rally against forced vaccinations prior to the rollout of vaccinations across Victoria and Australia on Monday.

Fifteen of the arrested were fined and the other five were charged with resisting the arrest.

Protests were also held in Sydney, Cairns, Coffs Harbor and Albany.

Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley told reporters before the protesters rallyed that the Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport cluster was “far from the end,” but the numbers were “more and more controlled.” “It shows that.

Twenty-two cases date back to a family of three who stayed on the third floor of the Holiday Inn and caught the British virus.

Authorities believe the outbreak began when one of the family members used a nebulizer medical device to spread the virus in the air.

Austin Health, Monash Health, and Western Health hospitals will distribute the first Pfizer vaccine in Victoria.

Foley said the workers most likely to come into direct contact with COVID-positive people will be in the first line of the jab from Monday.

This includes hotel quarantine workers, airport and port workers, high-risk front-line medical staff, senior care staff and residents.

The federal government allocated 12,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine to Victoria during the first week of the vaccination program.

“People are getting more confident that the vaccine is working, that they are protecting individuals, that they have no quality or safety issues,” Brett Sutton, chief health officer, told reporters. You will gradually understand that you are. “

As more jabs become available, the other six hospitals will also become vaccination hubs. They are Albury-Wodonga Health, Ballarat Health, Barwon Health, Bendigo Health, Goulburn Valley Health, and Latrobe Health.