Victoria’s coronavirus cases rise to 7,744 as five more people die from COVID-19

Victoria has recorded another 357 cases of COVID-19 and five more people have died from the virus.

Premier Daniel Andrews said a woman in her 60s, a woman in 70s, a woman in her 80s, a woman in her 90s, and a man in his 80s are the latest deaths, taking the state’s death toll to 61.

There are 229 people in hospital, including 42 people in intensive care.

There are 3,995 active cases across Victoria, including 313 in healthcare workers.

Mr Andrews says there are 500 active cases in aged care across 38 facilities, with roughly 50 per cent of them being residents and 50 per cent staff.

Aged care “is a very, very challenging environment”, Mr Andrews said.

Andrews says the Government was “working very closely” with the Federal Government and aged care providers to consolidate staff shifts into single sites, to reduce the virus from spreading through different centres.

“That obviously doesn’t eliminate, but significantly reduces, the risk of the virus being transmitted by staff from one setting to another,” he said.  Source: abc