A lack of information about regional coronavirus cases has prompted Euroa MP Steph Ryan to call for the Victorian health department to provide postcode-based data.
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The Nationals deputy leader said Mitchell Shire, which is part of her electorate, had recorded more cases than anywhere else in country Victoria, but residents were unsure where the risk was.
"The whole shire has been put into lock-down, but we don't know where the cases are," she said.
"That's a great frustration to people, because you would expect those cases are probably closer to Melbourne rather than the northern end of the shire, but people don't know.
"They don't know the risk in their own community, and we also don't know whether the restrictions are justified on the blanket approach with which they're being applied."
The attribution of cases to local government areas in Victoria compares to an interactive data map released by NSW Health, which shows the number of active and recovered cases, and tests done, by postcode.
The Department of Health and Human Services would not specify whether the active case listed for Wodonga on July 6 was a person currently in the area, citing privacy concerns.
Albury Wodonga Health chief executive Michael Kalimnios later confirmed the person was in Melbourne, despite his staff not conducting the testing for that case.
The Department of Health and Human Services has also not provided data on recovered cases in each LGA throughout the pandemic, unlike NSW.
Ms Ryan said recovery data was "totally valid", and more detailed information from DHHS would help to ease the anxieties of regional people, with the suburb-by-suburb data being provided for cases in the city.
"Postcode-based data is high-level enough to protect the privacy of people who are ill, but specific enough to inform people of the risk in their own area," she said.
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"Look at the data of cases by postcode, tell people where they are and apply restrictions on a postcode basis.
"Obviously restrictions are in force now, and they will be in place for six weeks, but I really do hope they take a common-sense approach here with Mitchell Shire and review the data.
"I'm really concerned there will be a lot of businesses that won't survive it if we don't take a more localised approach."
There were 12 active cases across Mitchell Shire as of Monday, out of 27 confirmed cases this year.
