Victoria was notified of 221 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday. All were locally acquired.
There are 1,920 active cases in Victoria - 1,916 locally acquired and four overseas-acquired cases.
There are 120 COVID-19 cases in hospital in Victoria. 33 of these cases are in intensive care, with 15 cases on a ventilator.
The total number of confirmed cases in Victoria since the beginning of the pandemic is 23,641.
Directions update
From 11.59 pm on Thursday 9 September, coronavirus restrictions will lift in regional Victoria (except for Greater Shepparton).
In addition, Victorians who have been residing in a NSW Local Government Border Area for at least the 14 days from Wednesday, 25 August to Wednesday, 8 September will be able to apply for a new permit exemption category to come home.
For more information, visit Coronavirus restrictions to lift in Regional Victoria.
Vaccines
Yesterday, a record 36,716 vaccine doses were administered by Victoria's state-commissioned services.
The total number of doses administered through these services is 2,680,174.
Victoria is now less than 300,000 doses away from delivering one million doses in five weeks.
At 11.59 pm yesterday, new Chief Health Officer directions came into place requiring residential aged-care facilities to ensure their workers are vaccinated.
For more information, visit Information for workers required to be vaccinated.
More than 73,300 vaccination bookings were made yesterday.
Over the next seven days, there are more than 10,700 first-dose AstraZeneca appointments available.
Bookings can be made via Victoria's online booking system at Book your vaccine appointment
