Six prisons in Australia's Victoria go into lockdown after confirmed COVID-19 case

Six prisons in Australia's Victoria went into lockdown on Tuesday night after a prison worker tested positive for coronavirus, local media reported citing Corrections Victoria.

The staff member employed at Ravenhall Corrections Centre in Melbourne's west entered self-isolation on July 16 after being notified as a close contact of a positive case. The five other prisons are being locked down because of prisoner movement, reports said.  

Victoria reported 374 new COVID-19 cases overnight and three more patients have died, according to local health authorities.