Stock photo: GettyVictoria has recorded 21 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases. There are now more than 450 exposure sites in Melbourne including Highpoint shopping centre and several large apartment blocks. Meanwhile, Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says the lockdown's ongoing toll on children is "heartbreaking", as mystery Covid-19 cases threaten to further extend the shutdown. But contact tracers are racing to discover the source of concerning mystery cases, with 13 emerging in the past three days. "I don't think that lockdown will finish ... until you're in single digits and have no mystery cases."

Source: Otago Daily Times August 13, 2021 22:41 UTC