The new cases are a child, a teenage boy, and four adults aged in their 20s, 40s, and 50s.
Three Victorians are in isolation for 14 days after visiting COVID-19 exposure sites in New South Wales.
They have all tested negative and their cases are being managed by public health authorities.
Text messages have been sent to more than 77,000 people who have arrived in Victoria from Sydney since April 30, advising them to check the NSW exposure sites linked to two new cases there.
Reported yesterday: No new local cases and 6 new cases acquired overseas (currently in HQ).
– 3,677 vaccine doses were administered
– 13,230 test results were received
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A man in his 50s became infected with coronavirus and passed it on to his wife, but New South Wales health officials have been unable to identify the original case in that chain of infection.