BALLARAT COVID UPDATE, Sunday November 28:
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NEW CASES: 1 (down from 2 yesterday)
ACTIVE CASES: 20 (no change since yesterday)
Ballarat has recorded one new COVID case, however the number of active cases remains unchanged at 20.
The new case is listed in the 3350 postcode which has 16 active cases.
There is six active infections in the 3352 area, three in the 3356 area and one in 3351.
Meantime the Moorabool Shire has recorded another two cases in the 3340 postcode.
The Pyrenees, Golden Plains and Hepburn Shires have not recorded any new cases today.
VICTORIAN COVID UPDATE, Sunday November 28:
NEW CASES: 1061 (down from 1,252 yesterday)
DEATHS: 4 (down from 5 yesterday)
ACTIVE CASES: 11,331 (up from 11,257 yesterday)
IN HOSPITAL: 283 (down from 299 yesterday)
IN ICU: 44 (up from 42 yesterday)
ON VENTILATOR: 20 ( down from 22 yesterday)
Victoria has recorded 1061 new cases of COVID in the 24 hours to midnight Saturday, 191 fewer than yesterday's figures.
Four people have also died with the virus, down one from statistics released yesterday.
The number of people in hospital has also dropped to 283 however ICU patients have increased for 44.
Twenty patients in the ICU are currently on a ventilator.
Ballarat recorded two new cases in the 24 hours to midnight Friday, but the number of active cases remained steady.
One new case was from the 3350 postcode while the other was listed in the 3356 areas.
In Moorabool, a further seven new cases were announced, with one more in Hepburn, and none in Golden Plains or Pyrenees shires.
The confirmation comes as the federal government reacts to news of a new 'variant of concern' of the coronavirus emerging in southern Africa, with many countries already announcing travel restrictions, including Australia.
The United Kingdom, Germany and Italy have detected cases of the new Omicron variant as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced new steps to contain the virus while more countries impose restrictions on travel from southern Africa.
The discovery of the variant has sparked global concern, a wave of travel bans or curbs and a sell-off on financial markets on Friday as investors worried that Omicron could stall a global recovery from the nearly two-year pandemic.
Two linked cases of the new variant detected in the UK were connected to travel to southern Africa, British health minister Sajid Javid said.
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