Latrobe goes into seven day lockdown

From midnight tonight, the City of Latrobe will go into a seven day lockdown, after confirmed Covid cases rose to 21 today.

If you have visited areas in Latrobe in the last week, please check the exposure sites.

If you have any Covid symptoms, however mild, please get tested immediately.

In a state government media release this evening, the Acting Chief Health Officer said  the "public health teams have significant concerns about onward transmission in the Latrobe Valley and have determined that the seven-day lockdown is needed to limit growth in cases, as it did in Ballarat and Geelong".

Latrobe residents now only have four reasons to leave the home (as per metropolitan Melbourne restrictions) and are not allowed to travel outside the local government area to anywhere in regional Victoria (other than for limited reasons such as authorised work, care and compassionate reasons, essential goods and services).

Affected towns include the major urban centres of Moe, Traralgon, Morwell and Churchill, as well as  Boolarra, Callignee, Glengarry, Jeeralang, Newborough, Toongabbie, Tyers, Yallourn North and Yinnar.

There are a significant number of exposure sites in Traralgon, Morwell and Moe. 

Details of the lockdown and restrictions are available on the Gippsland Region Public Health Unit Facebook page

A full list of exposure sites is also available at www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/case-alerts-public-exposure-sites