What time is the Victoria COVID-19 press conference today with Melbourne coronavirus cases update?
Victorian health authorities are expected to provide a COVID-19 update on Monday after the state recorded eleven new locally acquired coronavirus cases. The Health Department on Monday confirmed eleven cases were recorded in the 24 hours up to midnight, bring the total of the cluster to 81, with 94 active cases in the state. Victorias health authorities are expected to provide a COVID-19 update at 11.45am on Monday. Click here to watch the press conference LIVE. Two of the cases reported on Monday were already known after being revealed on Sunday. Four new cases were reported on Sunday, including two linked to the Arcare Maidstone aged care facility in the Melbournes northwest. One is a 79-year-old resident who has had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine. They live close to two other residents, aged 99 and 89, who have previously tested positive. Despite being asymptomatic, the resident has been taken to hospital. The other case is a registered nurse who worked at the nursing home on Saturday, is also asymptomatic and has received a first COVID-19 shot. Two of Mondays positive cases are believed to be more linked to the Arcare Maidstone aged care facility. Credit: JAMES ROSS / AAPIMAGE  Only two to three per cent of Victorians have so far been fully vaccinated as Melbourne emerges from its second weekend of lockdown. Victorias Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng said it was difficult to say what proportion would need to be vaccinated to avoid future lockdowns. There isnt one single magic number, Professor Cheng said. Once you get up to much higher coverage rates, then it makes a whole lot of things easier. High vaccination rates will help authorities contain virus outbreaks, but there's no 'magic number'. Credit: AAP  We may not need the intensity of restrictions. We may be able to only do contact tracing without having to do other things quite to the same level, and that is the benefit of vaccination, Cheng added. We dont want to be in this any longer than we need to. So if we can, we will lift it early.