Victoria has recorded the lowest number of cases since 13 July with 216 new cases, indicating that the state’s strict lockdown is helping to slow the spread.
There have been 12 deaths recorded.
The new deaths take the state’s toll from coronavirus to 363, and the national toll has been taken to 450.
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On Tuesday, 17 deaths were reported, and 13 of these were linked to aged care facilities. There have been 230 aged care residents who have died so far in the pandemic.
The aged care royal commission last week castigated the government for not having a plan to protect the elderly.
Despite the deaths recorded so far, Prime Minister Scott Morrison expressed optimism that Victoria may be turning the corner in its second outbreak.
“Obviously the number of deaths we have seen is very upsetting and disturbing,” he told Nine’s Today show on Wednesday.
“But those numbers look like we are getting on top of it now, which is welcome and we’ve got to stay the course.”
Hotel quarantine inquiry
Victoria’s hotel quarantine inquiry revealed on Tuesday that 90 per cent of cases in the state’s second outbreak can be traced to a family of four who moved into The Rydges Hotel on Swanston on 15 My after displaying COVID-19 symptoms. They were allowed to walk free after the children spread faeces in the room the Herald Sun reported, and two security guards and a hotel staff member tested positive to the virus within a week of this.
The Stamford Plaza Hotel and The Rydges are viewed as the source of 99 per cent of infections in the state’s second wave, according to Department of Health and Human Services epidemiologist Dr Charles Alpren.