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GREATER Bendigo has recorded 113 new coronavirus cases.
Data from the Department of Health released on Friday showed there were 202 active cases in the region.
The new cases were from the 3550, 3551, 3555, 3556, 3557, and 3558 postcodes.
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In other parts of central Victoria, the Macedon Ranges recorded 128 new infections, while the Campaspe Shire had 31 and the Mount Alexander Shire had 11.
There were five new COVID-19 cases in Buloke, while the Central Goldfields and Loddon shires had two cases each.
The Gannawarra Shire recorded a single case.
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Victoria has recorded another 21,728 COVID-19 cases since Thursday.
The municipality added 61 as its total active cases dropped to 160 on Thursday.
Across the state there are now 69,680 active coronavirus cases.
Another six people have died from the virus and its complications, according to Department of Health statistics released on Tuesday morning.
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A total of 644 spent Monday in hospital with COVID-19, 106 in intensive care and 24 on ventilators.
Health workers tested 68,202 people and vaccinated 20,726.
The state will bring in new hospitality restrictions to bring it in line with New South Wales' arrangements and tighten rules around rapid antigen tests.
Health minister Martin Foley said a density quota of one person per two square metres would be mandated at indoor entertainment and hospitality venues.
"We think this is a sensible change, particularly in the face of the continued huge growth in transmission, particularly amongst young people," he said.
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Forty per cent of new Victorian cases have been found among people in their 20s, overwhelmingly because of transmissions from hospitality and related venues, Mr Foley said.
"The interaction in those hospitality and entertainment venues is close, crowded, active, and mobile," he said.
"It's what young people do, and we don't begrudge them that, these relatively mild restrictions are about making sure that that activity can continue, that it can continue in a less congregated and less active space when it comes to hospitality."
The changes will not cover indoor seated cinemas and theatres because people are already seated.
Mr Foley also said he was signing pandemic orders recognising anyone who gets a positive result from a rapid antigen test as a "probable case".
The change will give people with positive tests the same obligations and rights while working through their infectivity.
"Essentially this new category, based on the rapid antigen test will be the same in the system as if you were diagnosed through a PCR system," Mr Foley said.
The orders will take effect from midnight Thursday.
Mr Foley said Victoria was shifting its response to COVID-19 after ordering 44 million rapid antigen tests, 700,000 of which were expected to arrive in the short term.
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