Three new coronavirus cases confirmed in Victoria as new exposure sites in Pascoe Vale, Broadmeadows revealed

Under stage four restrictions, masks must be worn everywhere except inside the home.(ABC News: John Edward Graham)

Three new coronavirus cases have been identified in Victoria in the past 24 hours — two locally acquired cases and one in hotel quarantine.

Victoria’s Department of Health said there were now 21 active cases in the state and 21,475 test results had been received in the past day.

It is not yet known if the new cases are linked to the outbreak in hotel quarantine at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport.

That outbreak currently stands at 14 cases, all of which involve the highly virulent UK strain.

Yesterday, a person who was friends with one of the Holiday Inn workers tested positive and 38 close contacts were told to isolate.

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The Department of Health said a number of people were mistakenly contacted and told they were primary close contacts of the Brunetti cafe exposure site at Melbourne Airport’s terminal four.

Some passengers in terminal one received a text message intended for those who attended terminal four.

The department said the Commonwealth’s national incident room passed on the contact details of people arriving and departing through terminal four but the list also included a number of departures and arrivals from terminal one.