North East Victorians are still waiting to hear when their lockdown will end.
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Health Minister Martin Foley said the government planned to ease restrictions in regional Victoria this week, except probably for the Shepparton region, but did not announce details.
"That will be focusing around support measures, wellbeing measures and a gradual easing," he said on Monday.
"It shouldn't be seen as a snapback to where we were, say, in April or May.
"The regions' main risks continue to be, as we've seen with the truck drivers and others, a combination of importing the virus, particularly from NSW, and making sure that the metropolitan Melbourne leaks don't get into our regions."
Victorian COVID commander Jeroen Weimar said the Wodonga truck driver and another in Shepparton contracted the virus from a different source than that currently active in Victoria, according to genomics.
"We believe both have acquired their infection interstate in NSW in the course of their normal working duties," he said.
"My thanks to these two drivers for getting tested so regularly, for getting tested immediately when they had symptoms and for isolating so well."
Mr Foley did not believe the two truck drivers were linked and he did not know whether they had been vaccinated or where exactly the virus had been contracted.
He said the current case figures pointed to the current outbreak being "a pandemic of the unvaccinated".
"Of the people in hospital yesterday, 13 in hospital were not vaccinated and were not eligible at the time they were diagnosed, under 16-year-olds," he said.
"Sixty-seven in hospital were not vaccinated but had been eligible for the vaccine at the time they were diagnosed.
"Ten were partially vaccinated; one person was fully vaccinated yesterday and the good news is that person has been discharged, is well enough to go home today."
"This current outbreak is targeting the unvaccinated because that's where the virus will go."
EARLIER: Victoria recorded 246 new local cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to midnight.
The Health Department said 121 of these were linked to known cases and outbreaks, with more case information to be provided in Monday's daily briefing.
There are 1619 active coronavirus cases in Victoria.
The latest figures come as the Border remains on alert after two separate COVID-19 incidents on the weekend.
NSW recorded 1485 new positive cases and three new deaths on Sunday.
There are 1030 people in hospital with the virus in the state, including 175 in intensive care and 72 on ventilators. Three of those in ICU are children.
On Sunday Victoria recorded 183 new local cases. This includes a guard at a Melbourne detention centre that holds asylum seekers.
The ACT had 15 new cases and Queensland recorded one. New Zealand has recorded 20 new cases.
Modelling from the Medical Journal of Australia shows the current mixed vaccination program will not be enough to protect the entire populous against COVID-19, until younger children between five and 16 can be fully vaccinated.
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