Update 12.15
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Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said nine new cases were in Shepparton.
Update 12.10
Mr Andrews said Victoria has "championed" the AstraZeneca vaccine.
"The Prime Minister has on numerous occasions publicly and privately indicated to me the number of AstraZeneca shots we've been able to get into arms is remarkable, is amazing, and sees us in a stronger position," he said.
"Across our state 2.6 million doses of AstraZeneca have been administered."
He said "the quicker we can get vaccinated, the quicker we can have the freedoms and the economic activity that we all desperately crave".
Update 12.02
Mr Andrews said the state would cope with a pandemic of the unvaccinated once the 70 and 80 per cent vaccination rates were achieved.
"Today as I stand here now, Victoria and the nation only have 35 per cent of people double dosed," he said.
"The notion of trying to cope with a pandemic when you are open with very few rules and so few people are vaccinated, we know what that would mean.
"It would mean thousands of cases."
Update 11.58am
Premier Andrews said the pandemic was moving to become "a pandemic of the unvaccinated".
"There are very few people in hospital that have been either first dosed or fully vaccinated," he said.
"I think Sydney is reporting that phenomenon also.
"This virus is going to the unvaccinated, that is to say it is finding younger people, people who are not yet vaccinated and it is making many of them very unwell.
Update 11.54am
Premier Daniel Andrews said 52 Victorian residents were in hospital with coronavirus, 16 were in intensive care and 15 of those were on ventilators.
He said the virus was affecting the state's youth, not just the elderly, with half of the patients hospitalised with COVID-19 aged under 50 and the median age of COVID-19 patients in intensive care at 49.
"It's not those that are in the last chapter of their life, we're talking about people who are all together younger than that," he said.
Update 11.52am
Premier Daniel Andrews said 36 of today's cases were in isolation for the entire of their infectious period.
Victoria now has a total 841 active cases, 836 of which were locally acquired and five acquired overseas.
Mr Andrews said the 32,162 vaccines administered yesterday was an increase of eight per cent on the same day the week before.
"I thank each and every one of those people for making an appointment," he said.
"This weekend just passed we saw a 20 per cent increase in the number of people getting the jab.
"There's a lot written and said about people being hesitant, but that's not our experience."
Earlier
Victoria has recorded 76 new cases of locally acquired COVID-19.
Of the new cases, 45 have already been linked to known clusters while 31 cases are under investigation.
The Department of Health has not yet revealed how many cases were infectious while in the community.
32,162 vaccines were administered in the 24 hours to midnight while 50,848 tests were received.
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NSW recorded 1290 cases on Monday.
Yesterday, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton hinted regional areas could be released from lockdown earlier than their metropolitan counterparts.
Mr Sutton said easing restrictions by local government area was not 'off the table'.
"Clearly we're doing pretty well in Shepparton that gives options for regional Victoria in particular at the moment," he said.
"We would clearly look to whatever options we can in releasing restrictions for place where we don't see transmission and where we don't think they're too substantially at risk because of the movement of people, because of exposure sites," he said.
"It's just good news that all cases are linked in Shepparton and the public health response can wrap around those contacts, of which there are thousands."
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