By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Greater Dandenong has recorded three new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, with Aldi Keysborough added to the high-risk location list.
An infected person is believed to have shopped at the supermarket on Thursday 1 October between 3.45-4pm.
Anyone visiting the supermarket is advised by the Department of Health and Human Services to be vigilant for Covid-19 symptoms.
Monash, Casey and Greater Dandenong have the fourth highest active cases in the state with 14, 13 and 10 respectively.
Twenty-seven active cases are linked to the Chadstone shopping centre cluster – one of them travelling as far as Kilmore.
Health authorities are step up contact tracing efforts, including door-knocking shops in the centre.
A new drive-through testing site has been set up in the centre’s level two car park.
“We need to ensure these numbers don’t get any higher, so I would call on anyone who was at the shopping centre between 23 September and October 1 to get tested if you have even the mildest of symptoms,” Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton said.
The Springvale shared accommodation outbreak has five active cases.
On 6 October, there were 15 new cases and one further death in Victoria. The state’s death toll is 807.
