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Greater Bendigo's active cases have increased for the first time in five days after recording 67 new coronavirus cases on Saturday.
Data from the Department of Health shows Greater Bendigo has 621 active cases, four more than the 617 recorded on Saturday.
The Macedon Ranges recorded the next higher number of daily cases since Saturday with 26 while Mount Alexander and Campaspe shires each recorded 14 new cases.
The Loddon Shire recorded 10 new cases on Sunday while Gannawarra had eight new infections. Central Goldfields and Buloke shire both had seven new cases.
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Premier Daniel Andrews believes Victoria has seen its peak of Omicron cases but said more challenges lie ahead as schools return.
"The Chief Health Officer is of the view we have seen that peak but with school coming back it will be challenging," he said. "But our staff, students and parent communities are working as hard as they can."
In the first four weeks of Victoria's first school term, staff and students will complete two rapid-antigen tests a week.
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"That is all despite the inconvenience we have had. This is not the summer we all wanted but we are making sacrifices to keep people safe."
Victoria currently has about 78,000 active cases compared to 191058 active cases at the same time last week.
"Our health professionals, through care, compassion and amazing skill levels, continue to do amaizng work," Mr Andrews said. "The numbers are more positive than we hoped and we hope it continues.
"But it is all in our own hands, in how conduct ourselves and (ensuring) we get our third dose of (COVID vaccine)."
Earlier:
Victoria has recorded 10,589 new coronavirus cases since Saturday.
Of the new cases, 6110 were rapid-antigen test results and 4479 were PCR tests. There were 25,172 completed on Saturday.
Overnight, there were also 20 coronavirus-related deaths.
Despite the new cases, Victoria's active number of coronavirus cases dropped to 78,294.
On Australia Day there was 139,562 active cases. That number has steadily decreased all week.
Currently, there are 889 people in hospital with coronavirus including 111 in intensive care and 35 on ventilators.
There were 23,863 vaccinations administered on Saturday with 38 per cent of people aged over 18 having had three doses.
Greater Bendigo recorded 105 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday but active cases fall to 617.
The Macedon Ranges (27), Mount Alexander (13), Gannwarra (11), Buloke (8), Campaspe (7), Central Goldfields (3) and Loddon (2).
Parents and primary school-aged student booked for a vaccination at the Kennington Prrimary School hub are reminded it has been moved to Mollison Street.
High temperatures in the school's buildings forced the move. About 200 students had appointments booked at the school this weekend that are now being honoured at the CBD site.
On Saturday, COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar said Victoria's testing system had returned to its usual efficiency.
"Just on 94 per cent of (PCR) results were back the next day," he said. "So we are back to having a fast testing system and I would encourage people to keep the testing going."
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