Vic COVID-19 spread linked to sports fans
The 大多数 of Victoria's 85 地元で acquired coronavirus 事例／患者s can be traced 支援する to two "superspreaders" who …に出席するd 冒険的な events while unknowingly 感染性の.
The first man, 老年の in his 60s, is a 居住（者） of the Ariele Apartments in Maribyrnong, which was visited by a COVID-感染させるd removalist 乗組員 from NSW on July 9.
The man did not know he was 感染させるd with the Delta variant when a day later he went for a drink with a friend at the Young and Jacksons pub in Melbourne's CBD, before 長，率いるing to the Geelong-Carlton Match at the MCG.
Nine people seated in the MCC Members Reserve and five of their の近くに 接触するs have since 実験（する）d 肯定的な for COVID-19, 同様に as seven people linked to Young and Jacksons.
の中で those to 契約 the ウイルス at the MCG was a man in his 30s, who 30 hours later …に出席するd a Euro 2020 選手権 見解（をとる）ing party at the Crafty Squire in Melbourne's CBD.
He left the event and 長，率いるd to Trinity Grammar in Kew, where he 作品 as a teacher.
The next day, he had dinner at Ms Frankie in Cremorne with 12 friends before 長，率いるing to the Australia-フラン rugby union 実験（する） match at AAMI Park.
The man also did not know he was 感染させるd and was asymptomatic at the time.
Nineteen staff and patrons of Ms Frankie, nine students and staff at Trinity Grammar, three people at AAMI Park and one person at the Crafty Squire have since 実験（する）d 肯定的な for COVID-19, 誘発するing their own chains of 伝達／伝染.
首相 Daniel Andrews said the two "superspreader events" had 証明するd the need for a statewide lockdown.
"The 速度(を上げる） with which this has moved through the Victorian community 確認するs that we did the 権利 thing to lockdown and it sadly 確認するd that we need more time," he told reporters on Tuesday.
The 明言する／公表する's stay-home-orders are now in place until at least 11:59pm on July 27.
Victoria's 長，指導者 Health Officer Brett Sutton said thousands of の近くに 接触するs, who are conside red most at 危険 of 契約ing COVID-19, are scattered across the 明言する／公表する because of the 冒険的な events.
"This 突発／発生 has touched the whole 明言する／公表する, and that was in a way that the Delta and Kappa 突発／発生s did not 支援する in May and June," he told reporters.
"Much of that is 予定 to the 最高の spreading events 早期に on in this 突発／発生 that took place in the MCC members' reserve for the Geelong-Carlton game.
"It is something that brings Victorians from far and wide and 支援する home far and wide across Victoria. Those 衝撃s are rippling across the 明言する／公表する."
Professor Sutton said people 感染させるd with the Delta variant appeared to be passing the ウイルス on to others いっそう少なく than 24 hours after 存在 exposed themselves.
"That tells us why we need to be across each and every 感染性の 事例／患者," he said.
There are more than 18,000 の近くに 接触するs self-孤立するing and more than 300 （危険などに）さらす 場所／位置s associated with the 現在の 突発／発生s.
