2.45pm
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A BENDIGO business has been downgraded in their exposure site status.
In a post on social media, Nude Food Breakfast Bar confirmed they had been downgraded from a tier one to tier two exposure site.
"We received the best call ever last night notifying us of a downgrade in our exposure site status," the post said.
"We are now just a tier two site which means our staff can return to work after their negative results are received, and our beautiful customers can go about their lives after also receiving negative results (please refer to the coronavirus website to confirm your own personal circumstances).
"Thank you to everyone for your kind words, phone calls, emails and comments yesterday.
"We really do love our community and we're reminded again why we love doing what we do."
The business will be open again from 7am on Friday morning.
12.20pm
A MORE detailed breakdown of the region's new COVID-19 cases has just been issued.
It suggests that Greater Bendigo's 28 new cases include 13 in the main 3550 postcode.
Another eight were recorded in the regional 3551 postcode.
Eaglehawk's 3556 area recorded three cases and the rest were in Kangaroo Flat's postcode.
The data suggests that Greater Bendigo now has 132 active cases, which may be a discrepancy as that would mean there were 30 new cases in Bendigo.
The Advertiser is contacting the Department of Health to clarify.
The data shows the Macedon Ranges Shire recorded another three cases on Wednesday.
The Campaspe Shire to the north of Bendigo recorded an extra six.
11.50am
GREATER Bendigo's delta outbreak has jumped again, this time by 28 cases.
It follows close to two weeks of increasingly big jumps in daily numbers.
The latest figures show that Wednesday was the second consecutive day of jumps in case numbers above 20-per-day.
There were 22 new cases the day before.
The 28 cases found on Wednesday is currently the largest daily jump of any of Greater Bendigo's outbreaks.
Contact tracers have said a jump in daily case numbers was somewhat expected this week after similar rises on Thursdays recently.
That could be because of people being infected on weekends and showing symptoms by Wednesdays.
Daily numbers could very well jump this weekend because the government has no intention of nixing a lift of lockdown restrictions across Victoria.
Restrictions lift at midnight tonight.
11.40am
Victoria's lockdowns will end tonight, deputy premier James Merlino says as the state hits its 70 per cent double vaccination target.
Mr Merlino said the state has also reached the 90 per cent first dose target for people aged 16 and over.
"That is quite incredible and that means we are on track to become one of the most highly vaccinated jurisdictions in the world," he said.
The confirmation comes on a day of spiking in daily COVID-19 numbers.
It is the same pattern seen in recent weeks and contact tracers say it is not entirely unexpected.
They suspect the spikes keep happening on Thursdays because of infections acquired over the previous weekend.
There were 240 new cases in regional Victoria, bringing the total number of active ones here to 1181.
Mildura will come out of its lockdown a day early, tonight at midnight.
It will then have the same restrictions as the rest of regional Victoria.
Earlier
There were 2,232 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Victoria overnight.
Department of Health and Human Services data showed there were also 12 deaths related to COVID-19.
Another three cases were recorded in hotel quarantine.
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Wednesday also saw 37,824 vaccinations administered into Victorian arms and just under 80,000 test results received.
Greater Bendigo saw 22 new cases on Wednesday taking the active case tally to 112.
Bendigo Health is caring for 17 people with COVID-19 including 12 are in the respiratory ward and five in the ICU.
There are 77 COVID patients being monitored at home through the Hospital in the Home program.
Crusoe College in Kangaroo Flat will be closed today after a positive COVID-19 case visited the school during their infectious period.
"There will be venues in regional Victoria and Melbourne that, as of today, will not be opening. Some will have to wait until next week when (more staff can get) vaccinated," he said.
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