Victoria’s health authorities have warned residents there will be no “magic number” of people getting vaccinated before future coronavirus lockdowns can be avoided.
The state recorded two new local cases on Sunday, both of which were linked to the Arcare Maidstone aged care facility outbreak.
Victoria’s health authorities are expected to provide a COVID-19 update on Monday. This article will be updated with the time as soon as it’s confirmed. Click here to watch the press conference LIVE.
One is a 79-year-old resident who has had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine. They live close to two other residents, aged 99 and 89, who have previously tested positive.
Despite being asymptomatic, the resident has been taken to hospital.
The other case is a registered nurse who worked at the nursing home on Saturday, is also asymptomatic and has received a first COVID-19 shot.
Victoria’s Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng said it was difficult to say what proportion would need to be vaccinated to avoid future lockdowns.
Only two to three per cent of Victorians have so far been fully vaccinated as Melbourne emerges from its second weekend of lockdown.
“There isn’t one single magic number,” Professor Cheng said.
“Once you get up to much higher coverage rates, then it makes a whole lot of things easier.
“We may not need the intensity of restrictions. We may be able to only do contact tracing without having to do other things quite to the same level, and that is the benefit of vaccination,” Cheng added.
Two cases reported earlier on Sunday were primary close contacts of previous cases and take the Kappa variant-related Port Melbourne outbreak to 30 cases, with four previous “mystery” infections now linked through genomic and epidemiological investigations.
Professor Cheng expects Melbourne will be able to ease restrictions on Friday.
“We don’t want to be in this any longer than we need to. So if we can, we will lift it early,” he said.
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