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All 11 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases recorded overnight on Sunday are linked to existing outbreaks, the Department of Health has confirmed.
It comes as the state government announced a $30 million support package for vulnerable Victorians.
Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers Luke Donnellan said $4.5 million would go towards emergency food relief, such as foodbanks, student supermarkets and outreach services.
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He said these would be in areas such as Monash, Latrobe and other areas where there was a large cohort of international students who were struggling.
Mr Donnellan said grants would also be available for regional and metropolitan food hubs.
Health Minister Martin Foley said there were 32 cases linked to the Whittlesea outbreak, including three new cases.
Those three are household contacts of existing cases and have all been in quarantine throughout their infectious period.
There are three new cases in Arcare Maidstone nursing home, bringing the total number to nine.
These include one resident and two new staff members.
Two of these were announced on Sunday and were included in the overnight numbers.
Four of the new cases are household contacts of cases in the western Melbourne outbreak, bringing the total cases in that particular outbreak to 14. These four new cases are three children and an adult.
There is one new case in the Port Melbourne outbreak, bringing the total cases there to 31. That person is a previously identified construction site worker in the city.
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VICTORIA recorded 11 new locally-acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to midnight on Sunday.
Two of these cases were first revealed by health authorities on Sunday but had not yet been included in daily tallies.
There were no new cases in hotel quarantine.
It brings the state's total number of active cases to 94.
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On Sunday 17,719 vaccine doses were administered and 24,295 COVID-19 test results were received.
The two new cases originally announced on Sunday were linked to a Melbourne nursing home worker and a resident.
"All care staff at the facility are required to wear full PPE and submit to regular testing, which is how the staff case was detected," the Health Department said in statement on Sunday.
"The staff member had not worked at other facilities."
The new statistics have been released as Bendigo Health prepares for a second health worker vaccination blitz, this time of Ambulance Victoria staff.
The health service urged members of the public to book ahead as vaccine supplies are expected to be limited during the blitz.
The push will start early this week once the current blitz of disability support and aged care workers comes to an end.
That earlier effort was extended over the weekend and is now scheduled to finish later on Monday.
Federal health minister Greg Hunt says more than 772,000 people had received a vaccine in six record-busting days, including 88,000 on Saturday.
"This means that over 5 million vaccines have now been delivered in Australia," he told reporters on Sunday afternoon.
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