There are 773 COVID-19 cases in hospital in Victoria – with 40 active cases in ICU, including 6 on a ventilator, and an additional 10 cleared cases in ICU.
6,321,754 vaccine doses have been administered by Victoria’s state-commissioned services.
69.2 per cent of Victorians aged 16 and over have had 3 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. 94.7 per cent of Victorians aged 12 and over have had 2 doses.
7,678 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded yesterday. This includes 5,991 who tested positive on a rapid antigen test and 1,687 who returned a positive result on a PCR test.
Sadly, the Department was notified of 3 deaths yesterday of people aged in their 70s and 90s. The total number of COVID-related deaths in Victoria since the pandemic began is 4,661. The number of COVID-related deaths recording in Victoria so far this year is 3,050.
The Victorian Department of Health regularly undertakes reviews and audits of the State’s reported deaths to ensure the accuracy of our COVID-19 mortality figures.
The Victorian Department of Health is formally notified of deaths of people known to have COVID-19 via a number of different sources, including the Victorian Death Index, VICNISS (Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System), the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and local public health units. The department updates its confirmed death statistics daily.
There are 61,077 active cases in Victoria.
10,612 PCR tests were processed yesterday. The total number of PCR tests performed in Victoria since the pandemic began is 21,854,978.
Updates
Omicron BA.4/BA.5 sub-variants still dominant in Victoria
The most recent wastewater testing results show Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants remain the dominant strains in Victoria.
The BA.4/BA.5 sub-variants were detected in 89 per cent of clinical genomic samples in the two weeks to 28 July and in 87 per cent of all wastewater detections to 21 July.
