Nothing good can come from a 10:30pm press conference :(

Late last night, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced that a worker at a quarantine hotel hosting guests for the Australian Open had tested positive to coronavirus.

This came just hours after it was revealed Victorian authorities were trying to work out how two groups of returning overseas travellers both staying at a different hotel ended up with the exact same variant of coronavirus.

As of 11:59pm last night, restrictions on gatherings, mask rules and caps on numbers of people have all come back into effect in Victoria.

So on today’s Coronacast, what can Victorians expect in the coming days, and do these cases tell us anything new about the virus?

Also on today’s show:

* Viral load is «a leading driver of SARSCoV2 transmission”

* Could the drug ivermectin help protect against coronavirus after all?

* Some Russian vaccine results have been published in a peer-reviewed journal, and it looks good

Tagged as: Coronacast, COVID-19.