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Bendigo's vaccination hub has not been named in a new state government list of venues expected to start giving AstraZeneca jabs to people aged 18 to 35 from today.
The government is urging people in other parts of the state including Melbourne, Geelong, Kilmore and Mansfield to begin booking in for appointments.
It expects a wider rollout of that program at a later date.
The AstraZeneca vaccine will still be available to 18 to 39-year-olds at participating GPs, respiratory clinics and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations.
From Monday, children aged 12 to 15 with specified medical conditions that increase their risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms will become eligible to receive the Pfizer vaccine at state-run clinics.
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PREMIER Daniel Andrews has refused to give any indication of whether the lockdown will end on schedule.
That includes in regional Victoria, despite no active cases being uncovered since the lockdown began.
"The last outbreak made its way to Mildura and you probably can't get further from Melbourne than that," Mr Andrews said.
"I know ... cases have gone from Sydney to Armidale. I think that is about 500km away from Sydney. This thing travels and it travels fast."
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VICTORIA'S contact tracers are yet to establish the origins of two COVID-19 delta outbreaks as the state remains locked down.
Premier Daniel Andrews said genomics helped but was not conclusive.
"The assumption has got to be that there is other people out there who have got this and have potentially spread it others," he told reporters on Sunday.
Health authorities are assuming that they had not been tested and had not been isolating.
"That's why we have the lockdown measures in place," Mr Andrews said.
"Limiting movement limits infection.
"It is challenges and really, real live difficult, there is no other tool to use, no other lever to pull. This is the only way forward for us."
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VICTORIA has recorded another 11 locally acquired COVID-19 cases as contact tracers race to track down people who were out in the community while infectious.
All cases were out in the community while infectious and were linked to known outbreaks.
Another two cases were acquired overseas and were in hotel quarantine.
The additional cases were found in a 24 hour period when authorities were tracing down leads on at least two mystery cases that were part of transmission chains.
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It was unknown whether the people knew they were infectious.
Other people who were infectious had broken social distancing rules and congregated together, premier Daniel Andrews said.
"So many of these transmissions, and others that we will find in coming days, will have been because people were visiting others and they ought not to have been doing that. They shouldn't have been doing that," Mr Andrews said.
"We can't change what has been done. We can all make the best choices for our loved ones and people we will never meet."
Meanwhile, Bendigo Wholefoods has revealed how people across Australia have been buying its produce and "paying it forward" to central Victorian residents in need through a push to support those hit hard by lockdown six.
Authorities have said this morning that 38,179 people were tested and and 17,360 vaccinated against the virus in the 24 hours to midnight.
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