Yesterday, 4,718 vaccine doses were administered by Victoria’s state-commissioned services. The total number of doses administered through state-run services is 4,829,012.
93.6 per cent of Victorians aged 12 and over have now had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 90.0 per cent have had two doses. This excludes the most recent Commonwealth data.
There are 310 COVID-19 cases in hospital in Victoria – 48 active cases and 48 cleared cases are in intensive care, with 31 cases on a ventilator. Of those in hospital 63 per cent were not fully vaccinated and of those in ICU 82 per cent were not fully vaccinated. The number of people in hospital increased from yesterday but is still at the 7-day average, which stands at 309.
Victoria was notified of 1,254 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday. All cases were locally acquired. The 10 Local Government areas with the highest number of new cases are Wyndham, Brimbank, Casey, Hume, Whittlesea, Melton, Bayside, Melbourne, Boroondara and Port Phillip.
All locations containing new cases will be published today at .
There are 10,276 active cases in Victoria. The total number of confirmed cases in Victoria since the beginning of the pandemic is 116,189.
Sadly, the Department was notified yesterday of five deaths of people aged in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. This brings the total number of deaths in Victoria since the pandemic began to 1,306.
75,348 COVID-19 tests were processed yesterday. The total number of tests performed in Victoria since the pandemic began is 14,848,008.
There are currently more than 51,000 active primary close contacts in isolation in Victoria.
Updates
Reminder
From 26 November, the following workers (and volunteers and students on placement) who are leaving home for work are required to show evidence to their employer that they are fully vaccinated:
- Accommodation workers
- Agriculture and forestry workers
- Airport workers
- Ancillary, support and welfare workers
- Authorised officers
- Care workers
- Community workers
- Creative arts workers
- Custodial workers
- Emergency service workers
- Entertainment and function workers
- Funeral workers
- Higher education workers
- Justice service centre workers
- Marriage celebrants
- Manufacturing workers
- Meat and seafood processing workers
- Media and film production workers
- Mining workers
- Physical recreation workers
- Ports and freight workers
- Professional sports, high-performance sports or racing person
- Professional services workers
- Public sector employees
- Real estate workers
- Religious workers
- Repair and maintenance workers
- Retail workers (including workers at food & drink facilities; licenced premises)
- Science and technology workers
- Social and community service workers
- Transport workers
- Utilities and urban workers
- Veterinary and pet/animal care workers
These requirements already apply to the following workers:
- Workers in residential aged care facilities
- Workers at construction sites
- Workers in healthcare settings
The requirements will apply to the following workers from November 29:
- Workers at school, childcare and early education services (plus outside school hours care services)
