A primary school in Melbourne's north has been closed after one of its students tested positive for coronavirus.
The year five student at Strathmore Primary School is one of nine new cases recorded in Victoria today.
Two of the new cases have been linked to a previously diagnosed patient at Monash Health, and one new case is linked to an extended family cluster in Coburg.
Three of today's confirmed cases are still under investigation, and two were returned travellers who are in hotel quarantine.
Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said the year five student was infectious for at least one day while attending the school.
Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said parents at Strathmore Primary School were notified late last night that a student had tested positive.
"The school is closed today and will be subject to a deep cleaning, and obviously the contact tracing will commence immediately to identify the staff and students who might be impacted by this particular case," she said.
A Victorian Education Department spokeswoman said the primary school would be closed for at least 24 hours.
"We wish the student a speedy recovery and look forward to welcoming them back to school once they’ve recovered," she said.
Two coronavirus clusters grow
The total number of coronavirus cases in Victoria is now 1,741.
The new case linked to the Coburg family outbreak involves a household in the northern Melbourne suburb of Reservoir, and brings the total number in that cluster to 12.
Yesterday, Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the cluster involved a "very large" extended family and was spread across households in Coburg, Pakenham and Broadmeadows.
Two schools in Melbourne — St Dominic's Primary School in Broadmeadows and Pakenham Springs Primary School — were closed yesterday for contact tracing and cleaning after students at each tested positive for COVID-19.
Pakenham Springs Primary School also remained closed for deep cleaning today.
Meanwhile, there are now six cases linked to an outbreak at Monash Health, after the two new cases today were identified through contact tracing.
There are 51 active cases in Victoria, with two people in intensive care and another four people in hospital.
Professor Sutton said despite the additional cases recorded today, community transmissions remained low.
"But when you get a cluster and it takes off because of a big household, or because of a setting where there's close contact, then that contributes significant numbers," he told 3AW this morning.
