Update 12.30pm: Victorian testing commander Jeroen Weimar congratulated Victorians on another day of zero coronavirus cases detected across the state and in hotel quarantine.
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Mr Weimar said of the 30 active cases in the state, one six were local acquired and the primary close contacts number dropped to 210.
As the interstate coronavirus outbreaks grow with NSW recording it's the highest number of daily cases since the first wave of the pandemic in 2020 with 35 cases.
Mr Weimar said health officials had process over 48,000 orange zone travel permits with 41 per cent of the returned travellers already recording a negative test.
There has been over 13,000 red zone permits received with 44 per cent of those testing negatively to the virus.
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Mr Weimar confirmed Alice Springs and the Darwin area including Litchfield and Palmerston had been changed from red to orange zones.
The Victorian Government declared all of NSW as 'orange zones' after and an increase in unlinked coronavirus cases in Sydney on Friday.
Five people had been fined almost $5000 for not complying with isolation orders and another five people were turned around at the airport for not complying to the travel permit system.
Returned travellers from orange zones must get a coronavirus test within 72 hours or returning and remain in isolation until they receive a negative result. People travelling from red zones must isolate for 14 days.
Earlier: VICTORIA has recorded another day of zero new locally acquired cases in the 24 hours to midnight bringing the state's current number of active cases to 30.
An extra 24,247 Victorians were tested for COVID-19 and 19,623 got the jab.
It has come in a week that featured record breaking days of vaccinations across Australia.
At least 26.9 per cent of eligible Australians have now had at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Also on Friday, Victorian health minister Martin Foley blasted an anti-vaxxer for reportedly abusing health professionals at vaccination centres.
"If you want to have tin-pot theories, that's fine, but keep them to yourself," he said on Friday morning.
Mr Foley was reacting to reports of an anti-vaxxer entering a Cranborne centre and making threatening remarks to staff.
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"You aren't allowed to come in and abuse nurses and health professionals," he said.
"Keep out of our healthcare settings, it's completely inappropriate and Victoria Police will hold you to account."
Meanwhile, a family has arrived home in Bendigo after leaving Queensland and its COVID-19 outbreak.
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