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The Department of Health has confirmed there are 1092 active cases in Greater Bendigo as of Saturday.
They also confirmed there were 1118 active cases on Friday and numbers had dropped since then.
1.15pm
GREATER Bendigo has seen a spike in cases as it recorded 146 new on Saturday.
This is a rise from the 46 cases recorded on Friday.
The Bendigo Advertiser has contacted the Department of Health to confirm the total number of active cases as the data is not clear at this stage.
Elsewhere in the region, Kyneton's Macedon Ranges Shire recorded 73 new cases and Castlemaine's Mount Alexander Shire had 28.
Echuca's Campaspe Shire recorded 57, the Loddon Shire five, Maryborough's Central Goldfields seven, Buloke four and Gannawarra 12.
Earlier
VICTORIA has recorded another 7810 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
A total of 687 were hospitalised with the virus on Friday, 80 of whom were in intensive care and 31 on ventilators.
Sadly, another 41 people died with COVID-19 overnight.
There are now 63,409 active cases across the state as of Saturday.
Of the tests that were processed, 5099 were rapid antigen tests and 2711 of which were laboratory PCR tests.
Greater Bendigo recorded its fourth consecutive day of falling COVID-19 cases on Thursday with 412 cases, 46 of which were new.
Authorities are expected to update those numbers to include the period spanning Friday later today.
Health minister Martin Foley announced on Friday that elective surgery would return from Monday.
They would start at 50 per cent capacity and it was not clear when full operations would be approved.
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