Anxious wait in Melbourne after dry cleaners test positive

A man working at a Melbourne dry cleaners contracted the virus at a birthday party in the Sydney suburb of West Hoxton on the weekend.

Yesterday it was revealed the owner of the dry cleaners had also been infected.

Crowds in Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall yesterday. (Getty)

The owner of the dry cleaner is now in isolation at the Holiday Inn hotel.

His wife and two sons are isolating separately for 14 days, but have thus far received negative results.

A series of exposure sites have also been listed overnight after the new coronavirus cases.

The following are tier 2 venues, where everyone must get tested urgently and isolate until getting a negative result.

June 20: Coles Oakleigh Central, 9.15pm to 9.45pm

June 21: Woolworths Burwood East – Burwood Heights Shopping Centre, 5:30pm – 6:15pm

June 22: Yang Yang Asian Grocery – Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre, 12.40pm-1.20pm

June 22: Colonial Fruit Company – Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre, 12.30pm to 1.10pm

June 22: Autograph – Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre, 11.50pm to 1pm

June 23: Black Rock Convenience Store, 10am-10.20am, 5.05pm-5.20pm

People entering Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne yesterday. (Getty)

The following are tier 3 venues, where people are warned to monitor for symptoms.

June 20: Broadmeadows Train Station, 7:55pm – 8:15pm

June 20: Flinders St Train Station, 8:38pm – 8:52pm

June 20: Oakleigh Train Station, 9:15pm – 9:30pm

June 20: Metro Train: Broadmeadows Station to Flinders St Station, 8:15pm – 8:38pm

June 20: Metro Train, Flinders St Station to Oakleigh Station, 8:52pm – 9:15pm

Flinders Street Station has been named as an exposure site. (Getty)

While the two cases were announced yesterday, Victoria lifted the strictest rules of its lockdown at midnight.

But face masks are still required in all indoor settings save for at home, unless an exception applies.

Yesterday Victoria expanded its red zones to keep potentially infected people from NSW out of the state.

All of Greater Sydney and Wollongong will now be considered a red zone, meaning people from there will not be able to enter Victoria.

Those rules came into effect at 11.59pm overnight.

That means non-Victorian residents who have been in Sydney and Wollongong in the past two weeks are banned from entering the state and Victorians will have to get a red zone permit and quarantine at home for 14 days.

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