Update: 2.30pm
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Here are some more details of all Victorian COVID-19 cases revealed by state authorities today.
The total has climbed to four after two cases were announced this morning.
The Canberra Times and AAP are reporting that two of the new COVID-19 cases are a 79-year-old resident of the Arcare Maidstone aged care centre and an agency nurse.
Another positive case detailed on Sunday is an additional employee of the port Melbourne finance company, while a teacher who works at a school linked to the West Melbourne outbreak of the Delta variant has tested positive.
Update: 2.15pm
FEDERAL health minister Greg Hunt says more than 772,000 people had received a vaccine in six record-busting days.
"Saturday, was a record Saturday with over 88,000 Australians being vaccinated," he told reporters in Melbourne.
"This means that over 5 million vaccines have now been delivered in Australia."
Meanwhile, the state government has said it is still to confirm what dates new $200 travel vouchers would be rolled out.
The vouchers were promised as part of a new tourism package released this morning.
The government also announced it would extend the travel period for people who secured vouchers for round three, but whose plans were affected by lockdowns.
Update 11.50am
THE Victorian government has announced a new round of the popular tourism travel vouchers.
The vouchers would help a sector bearing the brunt of damage associated with ongoing travel restrictions in and out of Melbourne, tourism minister Martin Pakula said.
"In regards to support for accommodation and other tourism businesses, at the moment, if you are in regional Victoria and you have got an entitlement to one round of the business cost assistance program that is two and a half thousand dollars, there will be a four and a half thousand dollars top up to take you to $7,000," he said.
"If you are a metropolitan business, where you are entitled to two rounds of the business cost assistance program, that is $5,000, there will be a $2000 top up, so all regional and metropolitan tourism operators will be entitled to $7,000.
There will also be support for alpine operators, whose livelihoods are expected to be particularly impacted over the upcoming Queens birthday long weekend.
Earlier
VICTORIA has recorded eight new COVID-19 cases overnight, including two that were locally acquired.
Six people who contracted the virus overseas are currently in hotel quarantine, the Department of Health says.
It brings the state's total number of active cases to 85.
The figures cover the 24 hours to midnight on Saturday.
Over that period 19,940 vaccine doses were administered and 29,816 COVID-19 test results were received
Meanwhile, the federal government has announced that all Australians over 40-years-of-age will become eligible for vaccinations from next week.
Australia enters a new "command and control" military-style scale up phase of the beleaguered vaccination rollout, under the new arrangements.
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