Victoria Records No New Cases Overnight

Victoria have just reached their first day without any locally acquired cases out health officials warn the outbreak's far from over.

The Delta outbreak has infected over 200 people since Victoria's last Covid-free day on July 11th, sending the region into a lockdown for 12 days.

While no news is good news for Victoria, the state still has 99 active cases which included known cases in hotel quarantine.

This is a 50 percent decrease in cases since last week with 205 active cases recorded on July 28, with the number of exposure sites also decreasing from the mid hundreds to near 40.

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300 people are currently in isolation with a majority of the 40,000 primary and close contacts finally being released from isolation.

While the state is finally seeing some semblance of recovery, there are still nine people battling the virus in hospital with two on ventilators in ICU.

Covid-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar has said the fight is not yet over for Victoria.

"These outbreaks are not over until we've got everybody cleared, until all remaining leads have been closed down, all exposure sites released," he said.

Mr Weimar added that in order to prevent another outbreak, the region would need to remain "vigilant".

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