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GREATER Bendigo has nine active cases of COVID-19, with no new cases reported since Sunday.
It's a drop of one active case since Sunday, when the city had 10. On Saturday the city's active cases stood at 16.
Premier Daniel Andrews announced the new Bendigo figure at a press conference on Monday.
It comes as Victoria reported its highest daily death toll yet on Monday, with 41 lives lost.
Mr Andrews confirmed 37 of these deaths were linked to aged care.
The total included 22 people who died in the weeks before August 27, only reported to the Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday.
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VICTORIA has recorded 73 COVID-19 cases overnight, with a further 41 deaths reported.
Today's deaths total includes 22 people who died in the weeks leading up to 27 August and were reported to DHHS by aged care facilities on Sunday.
It is not yet clear why the cases are being reported now and not earlier, but an update is expected later today.
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Infections in central Victoria and across the state continued to drop over the weekend.
Greater Bendigo had 10 active cases on Sunday, the lowest since 27 July when the second wave was first registering in the region.
The Macedon Ranges recorded its lowest numbers since 26 July with eight cases.
It and greater Bendigo were the two central Victorian shires that saw the largest outbreaks and where numbers have taken the longest to return to single digits during the second wave.
Health authorities will give a more detailed breakdown of central Victoria's active case numbers later today.
Also this morning, federal treasurer Josh Frydenburg has done the national TV news rounds, publicly calling on the Andrews government to release a stage four exit strategy for Melbourne.
He has told breakfast news programs the economic impact of restrictions through JobKeeper and other programs could linger for years.
Note: This story was updated to reflect the fact that 41 people died and 73 new cases were reported. The Bendigo Advertiser originally reported 41 new cases.
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