VICTORIA has recorded 11 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 overnight from over 38,000 tests.
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Another 17,101 people were vaccinated for the virus.
The new locally-acquired cases are all linked, and one has been in quarantine throughout their infectious period.
The recent cases take the total active cases to 103.
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has refused to say whether regional Victoria might come out of lockdown early, or on schedule because of the number of cases revealed over the weekend.
That included 29 cases publicly confirmed on Saturday and another 11 on Sunday.
All of those people were in Melbourne but they were also infectious while out in the community.
Authorities are yet to establish what caused several regional wastewater testing sites to ping including in Healesville and Benalla.
The sites detected fragments of coronavirus.
Meanwhile, multiple businesses are trying to rally people in these dark times.
They include Packed With Love, which is organising a sunflower competition that people can do in their own gardens.
Bendigo Wholefoods is urging people to buy meals that can be "paid forward" to people in need.
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