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Bendigo has recorded an additional six coronavirus cases on Tuesday.
The number of active cases in the region has risen by four since Monday.
Maiden Gully reported one new case as did Eaglehawk, while Bendigo reported the remaining four.
Mount Alexander and the Macedon Ranges each recorded one new case, while Loddon, Campaspe and the Central Goldfields recorded zero.
Since the start of the pandemic, Greater Bendigo has reported 741 cases of coronavirus.
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Victoria has recorded 827 new COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths as it sits just below its 90 per cent double dose vaccination threshold.
There were 303 people in hospital on Monday, according to the figures released by the Department of Health.
A total of 44 were in intensive care units and 23 were ventilated.
Another 5,464 vaccine doses were administer yesterday and over 48,000 people got tested.
More than 89 per cent Victorians aged 12 years are now vaccinated as Australia's parliament considers a "discrimination" bill championed by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
She described vaccine mandates as a "pandemic of discrimination" but not everyone agreed.
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie retorted that Senator Hanson had once described Australia as being "swamped by Muslims" and was making a hypocritical argument.
"If you're able to be vaccinated, and you choose not to, 'discrimination' is the wrong word. That's not discrimination. You have freedom to make a choice, but if you make a choice, those choices have consequences," she said.
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"You're making a choice that means you're more likely to get COVID, and you're more likely to spread it to someone else.
"And that is your choice, it is your right, I want to make that clear, and I support that choice. But you don't get to decide how the rest of Australia responds to that choice."
Two new cases were recorded in both the Macedon Rangers and Loddon Shire, one in Central Goldfields Shire and six in the Campaspe Shire.
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