VICTORIA will stay in lockdown beyond the original five days after recording twelve more cases and exposure sites appearing across the state.

There were 13 new local infections in the 24 hours to Monday morning, one of which is a case in Mildura, previously announced by authorities.

Premier Daniel Andrews on Tuesday said there were too many chains of transmission for the lockdown to lift at the original time of midnight Tuesday.

“We are running alongside this virus, but we’re not yet in front of it,” he told reporters.

“We’ve gone hard and early and I think we have avoided, in fact I know we have avoided something altogether worse.”

He said testing figures, exposure sites and test results today will guide the extension and he hoped to tell Victorians just how long that will be on Tuesday morning.

All the new cases are linked to the current outbreaks of the Delta variant in the state, which originated in NSW.

Victoria also recorded one new infection acquired overseas, currently in hotel quarantine, bringing its total number of active cases to 81.

There are now 15,800 close contacts and more than 250 exposure sites, including sites on Phillip Island in the south of the state to the Mallee district in the northwest.

There were 54,839 test results returned during the 24 hours to Monday and 14,758 vaccines administered.

 

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