Victoria has recorded its second highest daily COVID-19 figures since the beginning of the pandemic as a children's hospital ward is locked down after an infected parent of a patient visited the site.
Victoria has recorded 1,638 new local COVID-19 cases and two deaths in the 24 hours to midnight, the Department of Health announced.
The results came from an increased testing rate with 77,328 swabs on Wednesday and takes the number of active cases in the state to 15,074.
More information on the cases and deaths will be provided at Thursday's daily press conference.
The state recorded a national record on Tuesday with 1,763 infections.
Hospital locked down after positive case
The Royal Children's Hospital oncology ward has been forced into two weeks of isolation as it was identified by health teams as a Tier 1 exposure site.
A COVID-19 positive person visited the site from Saturday to Monday.
RCH Chief Executive Officer Bernadette McDonald said the infected visitor was the parent of a patient.
“The exposure we think was a few days ago and the positive result has just come through,” she said.
Contact tracing is underway with patients and carers to be confined in hospital rooms for 14 days.
Vic on track to reopen late October
Victoria is on track to reopening on October 26 once the 70 per cent double dose threshold is met.
Vaccination rates continue to climb. In the last five days just shy of 500,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine was administered across state hubs, GPs and pharmacies.
More freedoms will be triggered once 80 per cent have received both jabs, which is expected around November 5.
Premier Daniel Andrews said the state was still on target to hit the vaccine goals while cases continue to sit over 1,400 this week.
“We are on track to meet the targets but I don’t want any sense of complacency to creep in,” he said.
Stranded Vic residents can return home
Health Minister Martin Foley announced on Wednesday that New South Wales red zones will become orange while extreme risk zones in the northern state will be downgraded to red zones in a bid to bring thousands of stranded Victorians home.
From Wednesday 11:59pm Victorians and non-Victorians returning from non-locked down orange zones, mainly regional NSW, will need to test 72 hours prior to returning to the state and into the community.
Residents in red zones - largely Sydney and the ACT - will apply online to return to Victoria and must return a negative test three days before quarantining at home for 14 days.
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