The state reverted to stage 4 restrictions on Friday midnight, with the 5-day lockdown aimed to act as a ‘circuit breaker’ curbing the spread of the highly contagious UK variant of the virus responsible for the Holiday Inn outbreak.Īs per the latest known data, there are currently 966 primary contacts of patients identified linked to the hotel quarantine outbreak which stands at 14 cases. Victorians have woken up to the second day of a snap lockdown with three new coronavirus cases recorded, two of them locally acquired and one in hotel quarantine.
