There are 553 COVID-19 cases in hospital in Victoria – with 51 active cases in ICU, including 23 on a ventilator, and an additional 31 cleared cases in ICU.
5,804,012 vaccine doses have been administered by Victoria’s state-commissioned services, with 14,650 administered yesterday at state-run centres. 396 of the doses administered yesterday were for children aged 5 to 11 years.
48.9 per cent of Victorians aged 18 and over have had three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. 93.7 per cent of Victorians aged 12 and over have had two doses. 51.4 per cent of Victorians aged between 5 and 11 years have had one dose.
8,521 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded yesterday. This includes:
- 5,359 who tested positive on a Rapid Antigen Test
- 3,162 who returned a positive result on a PCR test.
Sadly, the Department was notified yesterday of 13 deaths of people aged in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Of those deaths, 12 occurred in the past week, with seven in the past two days. One of the deaths is a historic case from January this year.
This brings the total number of deaths in Victoria since the pandemic began to 2,247. One death recently recorded in our figures has been reclassified due to a duplicated report.
There are 55,617 active cases in Victoria.
22,197 PCR tests were processed yesterday. The total number of PCR tests performed in Victoria since the pandemic began is 19,173,643.
Updates
Lifting of the Pandemic Code Brown alert and increase to elective surgery
The Department of Health is working closely with health services to lift the coordinated Pandemic Code Brown from midday this Monday 14 February, while continuing to support individual hospitals as needed.
A further increase to non-urgent elective surgery will also begin from Monday 14 February – including private hospitals being able to perform up to 50 per cent of all elective surgery in metropolitan Melbourne and up to 75 per cent of all elective surgery in regional areas. Public hospitals in regional Victoria will be able to resume all category two elective surgery, dependent on workforce availability.
In addition, more than 1,000 Victorians have applied to help vaccinate people across the state as part of a push to expand the vaccination workforce to include health students, retired nurses and other trained workers.
