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Chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton is urging anyone who visited Kilmore's Oddfellows Cafe between September 30 and October 3 to get tested for COVID-19, even if they do not have symptoms.
Two people in Kilmore have tested positive to the virus after a person from Melbourne visited.
The person had a permitted worker permit to leave the metropolitan area, Professor Sutton said on Tuesday, but reiterated that holding a permit did not allow a person from Melbourne to dine in at regional eateries.
Professor Sutton said this person was a close contact of a staff member at the Butchers Club in Chadstone, which was at the centre of an outbreak of 28 cases.
Meanwhile, Roads Minister Ben Carroll today announced that booking fees would be refunded to those whose licence tests were postponed due to COVID-19.
The government will also waive booking fees on new bookings until testing returns to normal levels.
Learner driver tests will also move online from early next year.
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The number of active coronavirus cases in regional Victoria has dropped to three.
Chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton confirmed a positive test result returned by a Greater Shepparton resident was actually a negative.
Premier Daniel Andrews said one of the 15 new cases confirmed since Monday was in regional Victoria.
Twenty-one people are being treated in hospital for COVID-19, one of whom is in intensive care.
No one is on a ventilator.
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Victoria has seen 15 more people test positive for COVID-19, Tuesday's Department of Health and Human Services figures reveal.
Sadly, another person has also died from the virus.
But the rolling 14-day average of daily new cases has fallen - in the two weeks to Monday, Victoria was averaging 10.9 new cases each day, down from 11.9 as of Sunday.
In regional Victoria, this rolling average still sits at 0.3 new cases per day.
As of Monday, there were 153 active cases of COVID-19 across the state, four of which were in regional areas.
However, chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton flagged on Monday that one of these active cases, recorded in Greater Shepparton, could be a false positive.
It is understood the person has undergone further testing and is awaiting the results.
As of Monday, there were no active cases in Bendigo or central Victoria.
Regional Victoria is currently in 'step three' of the state government's reopening road map.
Metropolitan Melbourne will move to this step when the rolling daily average across the state sits below five and there are fewer than five cases of unknown origin within two weeks.
The entire state will move to the last step when there are no new cases anywhere in the state for two weeks.
'COVID Normal' will be possible when there are no new cases for four weeks, no active cases, and no outbreaks of concern anywhere else in the country.
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