Victoria has recorded no new local cases of coronavirus authorities announced earlier today, following a 15-year-old girl that returned to the state after having visited Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
The teenager lives in the Moonee Valley area of Melbourne and has been in isolation since returning home from NSW.
Her mother has returned a negative test and is being re-tested, alongside another two people from the household who are being tested while authorities are taking no risks, monitoring everyone’s phone records to be sure of their movements.
Meanwhile, there was one new international arrival in quarantine, recorded overnight after 22,956 tests were conducted.
This brings Victoria’s active cases to 10, all of whom are in quarantine or self-isolation.
Yesterday there were 0 new local cases & 0 lives lost. 0 new cases were acquired interstate, 1 international. There are 10 active cases in quarantine or self-isolation. 22,956 test results were received. https://t.co/2vKbgKHFvv #COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData pic.twitter.com/TCX7fLYDzD
— Victorian Department of Health (@VicGovDH) December 22, 2020
Victoria will not be opening its border to NSW until there is no community transmission in the state’s red zone.
People from regional NSW can get a permit to enter Victoria but travellers coming from “red zones” in Greater Sydney, which includes the epicentre of the outbreak in the city’s northern beaches, are being turned back.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews was accused of not looking at the “big picture” by his counterpart, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian after he decided to shut the border to travellers from the state on the grounds that “Victoria can’t go through another lockdown”.
