Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews said announced 270 new coronavirus cases overnight, bringing the state’s tally to 4,224 of which 1,800 are active cases.
Most of the new cases are under investigation as only 28 of these are connected to known outbreaks.
Known outbreaks in Victoria are as follows: Al Tarqua College (147 cases), Menarock Life aged care facility in Essendon (28 cases), Riverina Apartments in Footscray (nine cases) and Somerville retail services (14 cases).
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There are 81 patients currently in hospitals. From these, 26 patients in intensive care, up from 17 who were in ICU yesterday and only five of the patients are not on ventilators.
Some 21,995 tests were conducted in Victoria over the last 24 hours, and 1,170,352 since 1 January as the state government encourages anyone, even those with mild symptoms to get tested.
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