Victorian premier Daniel Andrews confirmed the number is his daily briefing this morning.

He also said of the 55 new cases Victoria recorded overnight, none were in regional Victoria.

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Victoria now has 1696 active COVID-19 cases, 82 of which are in regional local government areas.

Mr Andrews said the trend was positive but urged people to stay the course.

"Those numbers are falling steadily," he said. "It is important to keep coming forward and getting tested and it is important to stay the course.

"We are confident we will reach the target in terms of the 14 day average. As soon as we can have those changes (and take) two steps across the roadmap we are applying to regional Victoria, that's what we will do.

"That, I think, is not too far away."

Mr Andrews said he would let the data drive when regional Victoria could take the next step in the recovery road map.

"If it was a situation where we were asking all of regional Victoria to wait six or eight weeks, we would have divided regional Victoria up based on zones, risks and data," he said.

"But I think we will be able to take significant steps very soon. We will (do that) based on data and science."

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Mr Andrews also praised the efforts of contact tracing teams who had been able to interview more than 90 per cent of positive cases in the first 24 hours.

"The reason that there are eight per cent of people we can't get to within that timeframe are the same reasons we always have talked about," he said. "(They're) not home. You might need a guardian or adult to interview a child.

"In terms of close contacts, we are at 99 per cent.So just one per cent of people for exactly the same reasons cannot be contacted."

Bendigo Health has traced 1345 close contacts of the 89 positive coronavirus cases it has dealt with.

Deputy secrertary of community engagement and testing Jeroen Weimar said highlighted Bendigo Health as part of his briefing with Mr Andrews this morning.

Mr Weimar said the strength of regional Victorian contact tracing teams had helped prevent further outbreaks in parts of the state.

"The strength of the model was illustrated in the Colac outbreak, where two positice cases led to 25 close contact also contracting COVID-19," he said.

"Anybody who tested positive was already self-isolating and there were no further knock on effects."

Mr Weimar said the efforst of local contact tracing teams had been important.

"We saw similar results in Bendigo, Castlemaine and Geelong," he said.

"Swift contract tracing using well established networks and local teams has ensured close contacts are identified, brought together safely, isolated and then going through the 11-day adn 14-day processes as necessary."

Going forward, Mr Weimar said continuing to work with local communities to engage in the fight against COVID-19 was important.

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