Victoria has recorded 183 new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 as the state pushes to get vaccination rates ahead of a rapidly growing outbreak.<\/p>\n
Of the new infections, 101 have been so far linked to known cases.<\/p>\n
The state has stopped providing detail on how many people were in the community while infectious as contact tracers deal with hundreds of new cases.<\/p>\n
It brings the total number of active cases in the state to 1417.<\/p>\n
The new local cases were found from 48,487 test results processed on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton yesterday said the state had “held a tsunami of cases back for 20 months”.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got maybe the biggest challenge that we’ve ever faced,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But we’ve also got a proper pathway out of here with vaccination, so hold the line in these last weeks and months, until we get the high vaccination coverage.”<\/p>\n
The state saw a significant jump in cases during the week, from 73 on Monday to a high of 208 from Thursday’s tests. The number of people in intensive care units across the state has steadily risen along with infection rates.<\/p>\n
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