Residents of a Melbourne apartment block are unable to leave their flats after being deemed a Tier One exposure site overnight.
Victoria Health are expected to make an official statement regarding the apartments today but it is understood that a person who lives there has been infected with COVID-19 and has been rushed into hotel quarantine.
There are more than 20 residents living at the Richmond complex who will now be required to stay inside their flat for the next 14 days.
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The sole entrance the building has already been blocked off with police tape and a sign warning people to stay away placed outside.
The state recorded four new locally-acquired cases of COVID-19 today, all of whom are linked to current outbreaks.
In the past 24 hours to midnight more than 25,000 tests were conducted.
Just one new exposure site has been released in the last day by health authorities, but the apartment blocks are expected to be officially added this morning.
Body Fit Training, Altona North, located 18 Bennett Drive has been listed as a Tier Two exposure site with anybody who visited on Wednesday July 28 between 5.20am to 7.00am urged to seek immediate testing and isolate until a negative result is received.
On Friday, Woolworths Doncaster at the Devon Plaza on Doncaster Road, Doncaster, was listed as a Tier One exposure site with anybody having visited the supermarket between 10.20am to 11.25am on Wednesday July 28 considered a close contact and urged to seek testing and isolate for a full 14 days.
That same day, five Tier Two exposure sites were also added to the list.
The constantly evolving list of new COVID-19 exposure sites can be seen here in full.
A number of supermarkets, stores and a shopping centre were also added earlier in the week.
The supermarkets potentially exposed to COVID-19 on July 24 include Coles at Karingal Hub Shopping Centre in Frankston between 11.45am and 12.40pm, Woolworths in Borrack Square in Altona North between 5.15pm and 6.30pm and Ritchies IGA Liquor in Frankston between 4.10pm and 4.35pm.
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The Karingal Hub Shopping Centre has also been listed between 11.45am and 12.40pm.
The shopping centre and supermarkets are Tier Two exposure sites, requiring anyone who attended to get tested.
A 7-Eleven in Yarraville has also been listed as a Tier Two site for July 25 between 7.05am and 7.50am, as well as Chemist Warehouse Baxter in Frankston South on July 24 between 3.45pm and 4.15pm.
A drive-through testing site in Moonee Valley remains a Tier Three exposure site after the mystery case - a traffic controller - worked for two days at the clinic while potentially infectious.
Anyone who visited the testing clinic on July 25 and 26, between 7.20am and 6pm, is urged to monitor for symptoms.
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