Premier Daniel Andrews has rejected a suggestion that a new strain of coronavirus from the UK has already been recorded in Victoria.
Victoria has recorded no new locally acquired coronavirus cases, and one in hotel quarantine, the state's health department says.
There are now 39 active cases in the state.
Responding to media reports that the UK strain had been detected in Victoria in June, Mr Andrews said that was incorrect.
"The strain we are talking about at the moment that is so much more infectious is not here, it has not been here, and it is our aim to keep it out," he said.
Mr Andrews said it was likely stronger measures to prevent the spread of the UK strain in Australia would be agreed at today's National Cabinet meeting.
"It's my expectation, and I'm very confident we will see issues like pre-flight testing, issues like flight crew being tested when they get here, a whole range of measures that we've pushed and advocated for," he said.
"Given the extremely infectious and contagious nature of this UK variant, it is very, very important that we do everything we can."
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said 23,108 test results were received yesterday, but around 10,000 results were delayed because of a technical issue.
DHHS said a technical outage at a private pathology lab delayed the reporting of negative test results to some individuals.
The outage does not affect the total positive cases reported, and the negative results will be included in tomorrow's update.
More to come.
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