The Salvation Army crisis support centre in St Kilda on Wednesday.Credit:Chris Hopkins
Mr Weimar said specialist health teams had been deployed to the St Kilda area.
Mr Foley also revealed almost half of Victoria’s active coronavirus cases were young people.
There are currently 246 active coronavirus cases across the state,with 56 under the age of nine and 55 aged between 10 and 19.
However,Mr Foley defended the closure of playgrounds while childcare centres remain open,describing the latter as a “controlled environment”.
“They have quite strict protocols in place … both federally and at the state level,” Mr Foley said.
“I think there’s always a difference between a regulated controlled environment,and an unregulated environment.”
He said playgrounds and childcare centres were qualitatively different,and noted the Delta variant had already spread in outdoor areas.
He said a skate park in Melbourne’s north had been declared a COVID-19 exposure site.
“We have to work on the basis of public health advice and the evidence,” Mr Foley said.
“In regards to playgrounds,I think the evidence is that we’ve got 110 young people already infectious. Young people and kids,in particular,hang out in playgrounds. It’s a risky transmission site.”
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent said “our members haven’t been tasked to police playgrounds at all”.
Police patrol Princes Park in Carlton on Tuesday morning.Credit:Joe Armao
“What we are asking our police to do is to ensure that the community complies with the directions that are put in place to prevent the spread of the virus,” Mr Nugent said.
“It’s really important for our members to be out there being visible in the community,being active in the community,engaging with the community to ensure that they do comply with those directions.”
Mr Nugent said he thought it would be highly unlikely that police officers would issue a fine to someone at a playground.
Playgrounds were closed as part of tougher new lockdown restrictions for Melbourne that came into effect at 11.59pm on Monday.
Mr Nugent said police had issued 47 fines for COVID-related breaches in the 24 hours to noon on Wednesday.
Of the new local COVID-19 cases recorded in the 24 hours to midnight on Tuesday,20 were linked to known outbreaks and 18 were isolating for their entire infectious periods.
There are now 12 people with COVID-19 in Victorian hospitals with two in intensive care.
The new cases include:
About 60 new entries were added to the state’s list of COVID-19 exposure sites on Wednesday,with a kindergarten in Glenroy among the 10 tier-1 additions.
York Street Kindergarten,close to Glenroy West Primary (the centre of one of the largest clusters in the current outbreak),waslisted for seven days of exposure from August 6.
The York Street Kindergarten in Glenroy was added as a tier 1 exposure site on Wednesday.Credit:Justin McManus
Old School Pizza&Stonegrill in Coburg and a Bank of Melbourne branch in the CBD were among the other tier-1 additions.
An area of Melbourne Airport,several train lines and McDonald’s outlets in Footscray,Brunswick and Altona North were among the more than 40 tier-2 additions.
The Upfield,Sandringham,Pakenham and Frankston lines were also listed as tier-2 sites for travel at certain times on August 13,and the Pakenham Line on August 14.
A Centrelink office in Brunswick and a number of outlets in Barkly Square were also added as tier-2 venues.
In St Kilda,authorities listed the Sacred Heart Mission dining hall and the Salvation Army crisis centre on Grey Street and The Women’s House - Sacred Heart Mission on Inkerman Street.
Authorities also listedseveral playgrounds and parks throughout the city that were visited by a positive case in the past week.
Jack Roper Reserve playground and Lahinch Street playground,both in the northern Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows,were listed as tier 2 sites as was an entrance to Coburg Lake in Coburg North.
An oval on Wedge Road and Oakwood Drive Reserve,both in Carrum Downs,were also added as a tier-2 and tier-3 site respectively.
Authorised worker permits are now in effect for Melburnians.
Authorised workers must carry their permits,signed by their employers,when travelling to and from their workplaces. Businesses can be fined up to nearly $110,000 if they issue permits to employees who aren’t eligible for the worker permit scheme.
On-the-spot fines of $1817 will also apply to individuals,while businesses face $11,000 if they breach the scheme requirements.
Credit:Matt Golding
More than 39,832 coronavirus test results were processed on Tuesday,while more than 27,173 people rolled up their sleeves for a COVID-19 vaccine at a state-run clinic. Victoria recorded no new overseas-acquired cases of COVID-19 in hotel quarantine.
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