There remain no active cases of coronavirus in the Wimmera, following Thursday's DHHS update.
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Ararat, Horsham, Hindmarsh, Northern Grampians, West Wimmera and Yarriambiack Shires all have no cases.
In the case of Hindmarsh, it has still never recorded a case of coronavirus, one of only two council areas in Victoria to have this distinction.
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In Victoria at the current time:
- 4277 cases may indicate community transmission - no change since yesterday.
- 30 cases are currently active in Victoria.
- 2 cases of coronavirus are in hospital, there are no cases in intensive care
- 19,496 people have recovered from the virus
- A total of 3,233,373 test results have been received which is an increase of 17,357 since yesterday.
Of the 30 current active cases in Victoria:
- 30 are in metropolitan Melbourne under the Third Step of our roadmap
- There are no cases in regional local government areas under the Third Step of our roadmap.
Of the total cases:
- 18,953 cases are from metropolitan Melbourne, while 1199 are from regional Victoria
- Total cases include 9702 men and 10,630 women
- Total number of healthcare workers: 3574, active cases: 2
- There is 1 active case relating to aged care facilities
ED presentations drop across Victoria
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Martin Foley today released Victoria's September quarter performance data, which shows our hard-working front-line workers continued to provide timely care even while dealing with unprecedented widescale measures to keep Victorians safe.
"The latest Victorian health service and ambulance performance data shows doctors and nurses in our emergency departments treated 100 per cent of the most urgent Category 1 patients immediately on arrival at the hospital," he said in a statement.
"It also shows that even though most Category 2 and all Category 3 elective surgery was cancelled as hospitals dealt with the pandemic, 99.99 per cent Category 1 urgent elective surgery patients received their operations within the target 30 days - half of them within 10 days.
"Even with the focus on responding to the coronavirus peak, our health care workers maintained their high levels of performance, particularly for the most seriously ill and injured patients.
"Ambulance Victoria reached 82.3 per cent of Code 1 urgent cases within the benchmark of 15 minutes, with an average response time of 11 minutes 37 seconds - well under the 15 minute target. This is an improvement on 81.6 per cent in the June quarter, when ambulances reached Code 1 cases in an average 11 minutes and 47 seconds.
"Victoria's ambulances transported 68,666 Code 1 emergency patients in the three months to the end of September - 1760 more than the previous quarter.
"The report also shows 362,833 people attended our hospital EDs in the September quarter, down by 116,297 on the same quarter in 2019."
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