Victoria’s COVID outbreak soars by 324

Victoria’s COVID outbreak has well and truly grown out of control with locally acquired cases surging by 324 over the past 24 hours:

Reported yesterday: 324 new local cases and 1 case acquired overseas (currently in HQ).
– 37,604 vaccines administered
– 54,242 test results received

More later: https://t.co/lIUrl1hf3W#COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData [1/2] pic.twitter.com/SIb5uNZaFu

— VicGovDH (@VicGovDH) September 8, 2021

More than two-thirds of these are mystery cases. Of the 324 local cases, only 107 have so far been linked to known cases and outbreaks.

The next chart illustrates the situation, with the 324 cases recorded today easily the highest this outbreak:

Victoria’s daily cases are tracking way above NSW at the same point in their outbreak:

Active cases in Victoria have soared to 2166:

And Victoria’s active cases are tracking slightly worse than NSW’s at the same point in the outbreak:

Given Victoria’s outbreak is running around 6 weeks behind NSW, Melburnians are facing a dark October and November.