Just a day after most of regional Victoria came out of lockdown, new locations were listed a long way from Melbourne.A staff member at a cafe in Daylesford, about 100km north-west of Melbourne, worked while infectious on September 7.There are two more exposure sites in the town, a cafe and medical centre.A construction site in Lorne on the Victorian surf coast has also been listed as a tier one exposure site.It is not yet clear what the new exposure sites could mean for regional restrictions.Of the new cases reported on Saturday, only 75 were linked to known cases and outbreaks.A total of 39,148 vaccines were administered and 42,765 test results were received over the past 24 hours.The state recorded 334 new locally acquired infections on Friday and a man in his 70s from Coburg also died from the virus. Just 149 of those infections were linked.On Monday and Tuesday this week, the number of new cases sat between 220 to 250 cases. It was revealed yesterday that about 100 regional train services would be disrupted after a Victorian V/Line driver tested was one of the hundreds of people found to be infected. The train driver had travelled to Gippsland and had been in the staffroom at V/Line headquarters at Southern Cross Station where many other employees gathered.Victoria’s Covid-19 commander Jeroen Weimar on Friday said it was likely the driver contracted the virus from exposure though passengers living in Melbourne high-risk western suburbs.At least 100 staff have been put into isolation.Four cases were in regional local government areas but all cases were linked to metropolitan Melbourne.A call centre worker in Kinglake, a construction worker in Mitchell Shire and the V/Line worker in Gippsland had been identified as cases.Mr Weimar asked Melburnians to remain in the metropolitan area and avoid travelling into the regions.“With the level of community transmission we’re now seeing, particularly in the northwest of our city, it’s our job as Melburnians to stand our ground here, fight this fire here, and get it down as quickly as we can and look to better days ahead,” he said.More to come.
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