No new virus cases detected locally or in hotel quarantine in Victoria - 9News

Victoria's Hotel Inn cluster is "increasingly under control", the state's Health Minister Martin Foley has said after no new cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed overnight.

No new cases were identified either in hotel quarantine or in the community with more than 17,000 tested conducted in the last 24 hours.

The number of active cases in the state now sits at 25 with just one remaining case being treated in ICU.

Victoria Health Minister Martin Foley provides a COVID-19 update for February 20, 2021. (9News)

"Another day of no locally acquired cases does give our team increasing confidence that the Holiday Inn cluster is increasingly under control but its far from being over and vigilance needs to be maintained," Mr Foley said.

"We are still approaching that outbreak with the upmost vigilance and caution."

Today's figures come after three new locally acquired cases were reported yesterday.

The cases are a family, including two parents and a child all of whom are primary close contacts of the Holiday Inn hotel outbreak.

As a result of the positive case, Victorian health authorities issued an alert for a low level tier-three risk exposure site.

The alert is for a Coles Express at 21 Ardena Court in East Bentleigh.

Anyone who visited the location between 1pm to 1.40pm on February 18 should monitor symptoms and get tested if they develop symptoms.

Victoria's acting Health Minister, Martin Foley said the family sanitised on the way in and out and wore face masks during their brief visit however the state was taking an "abundance of caution" in issuing the alert.

Victoria's state health authority said the new cases are not of concern as they were all already in isolation during their infectious period.

Victoria will begin vaccinating people who are most at-risk of contracting COVID-19 from Monday.

The first Victorians to get the Pfizer jab for coronavirus will be frontline workers under phase 1A, including hotel quarantine workers staff and port of entry workers who are on the forefront of the state's quarantine system.

(9News)

In NSW, the state has reached day 34 with no new cases of COVID-19 however positive traces of the virus have been identified near a worksite in Auburn with people in the area warned to remain vigilant and get tested if symptoms develop.

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