Victoria has recorded 1903 COVID-19 cases and seven deaths overnight, as the state races closer to the end of lockdown. The results came following close to 70,000 test results overnight.

On Sunday, Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews vowed Victoria would not endure another lockdown.

With Sydney opening its borders from 1 November, Victoria’s premier also said hotel quarantine would be a “thing of the past” for fully vaccinated travellers. He said Victoria would introduce home quarantine for fully vaccinated travellers, and that this would be for a period less than 14 days.

The Premier said that there would be no further lockdowns in Victoria following Thursday.

He told the ABC that “because these vaccination rates are so high … we can be optimistic about the future”.

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“If we could open everything at the same time and not have our health system overrun, of course we would do that,” he said.

“And I’m very sorry that we can’t do everything at once.”

“We want to get open, and open to the world, as fast as we can.”

With vaccination rates growing and set to reach 70 per cent on Thursday, fully vaccinated people who visit tier 1 exposure sites will now only need  to vaccinate for a week.

Unvaccinated Victorians and household contacts of a known positive case will be required to continue to isolate for 14 days.

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Australia’s Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said there was a “long way to go before Victorians, who have given up so much, get the same freedoms as NSW”.