Coronavirus update for Victoria 30 April 2022

There are 448 COVID-19 cases in hospital in Victoria - with 25 active cases in ICU, including 3 on a ventilator, and an additional 5 cleared cases in ICU.

6,200,890 vaccine doses have been administered by Victoria's state-commissioned services, with 2,187 administered yesterday at state-run centres.

67.7 per cent of Victorians aged 18 and over have had three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. 94.5 per cent of Victorians aged 12 and over have had two doses.

9,064 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded yesterday. This includes 5,855 who tested positive on a Rapid Antigen Test and 3,209 who returned a positive result on a PCR test.

Sadly, the Department was notified of 19 deaths yesterday of people aged in their 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Eleven of today's reported deaths occurred in the past week including 4 deaths that occurred in the past two days. This brings the total number of deaths in Victoria since the pandemic began to 2,967.

There are 54,992 active cases in Victoria.

16,543 PCR tests were processed yesterday. The total number of PCR tests performed in Victoria since the pandemic began is 20,516,623.

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