Date: 28 April 2020

Location: Albert Road Clinic, 31 Albert Rd, Melbourne VIC 3004

Number of people: 1

Details: One new case of COVID-19 has been diagnosed in the past 24 hours which is linked to a cluster at the Albert Road Clinic, a private psychiatric inpatient facility near the Melbourne CBD. This raises the number of people related to the clinic infected with the virus to 16, including seven patients. The clinic is in lockdown for 14 days and will undertake a decontamination, and all staff and other close contacts of infected persons are being asked to self-quarantine.

VIC has now had 1,351 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus.