11 new COVID-19 cases

All of the cases are being managed and controlled in quarantine and currently there is no evidence of a community transmission, a government statement said.

All passengers and frontline workers were swabbed yesterday, which was day five of their quarantine.

The early results returned positive for 5 individuals who are frontline workers monitoring the isolation unit at Moto’otua, and 6 more positive cases confirmed late last night and early this morning were passengers, who arrived on a flight on Wednesday, 19 January.

It takes the state's current outbreak to about 80.

The results were detected among 24,265 tests received on Sunday, and there were 17,719 vaccine doses administered at state-run sites.

Victoria's Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng yesterday said the state was running "neck and neck" with the outbreak when it came to managing the "downstream" risks of positive cases emerging from already identified exposure sites and chains of transmission.