Victoria's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos says the state has detected 149 new cases of coronavirus and 24 people with COVID-19 have died.
Ms Mikakos, speaking on RN, said Victoria still had a "very serious situation" to deal with and defended the State Government proposal to amend legislation to allow the state of emergency to be extended by up to 12 months.
The Minister said the latest deaths were "overwhelmingly" in aged care.
They take the state's COVID-19 death toll to 462.
Today's figures come after 148 cases were reported yesterday and 116 cases were announced on Monday — the lowest daily number of new cases in more than seven weeks.
Premier Daniel Andrews is expected to provide more details about the latest infections at a press conference later today.
Data released yesterday by Victoria's Chief Medical Officer Andrew Wilson showed that 70 to 80 per cent of healthcare workers who contracted coronavirus during the state's second wave caught it at work.
The State Government previously estimated only 10 to 15 per cent of COVID-19 cases among the state's healthcare workers had been acquired at work, saying the rest of the infections were acquired in the community.
In the first wave of infections, about 22 per cent of infections among healthcare workers were acquired at work, according to the data.
More to come.
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