Victoria has recorded 221 new local cases of Covid-19 as a furious Daniel Andrews demands more vaccines so Victorians can get some freedoms sooner.
Victoria has recorded 221 new locally acquired infections of coronavirus on Wednesday.
It’s a slight decrease from two consecutive days of 246 daily cases on Monday and Tuesday.
Of the 221 cases reported on Wednesday, only 98 were linked to known cases and outbreaks, with the remainder under investigation.
It brings the total number of active cases across the state to 1920.
A total of 42,419 Victorians got tested in the past 24 hours and more than 36,700 vaccine doses were administered.
It comes as Premier Daniel Andrews demanded 340,000 more vaccine doses from the federal government, saying there needs to be a “reckoning”.
Mr Andrews fired up after learning New South Wales received doses that were initially allocated to Victoria, which in turn would bring the state closer to ending lockdowns.
“Something like 340,000 doses that haven’t come to Victoria that ought to have,” he said on Tuesday.
“We have seen hundreds of thousands of vaccines that should have come and should now be in the arms of Victorians going into Sydney into GP practices and into New South Wales.”
About 61.59 per cent of Victorians have received the first dose of the vaccine.
State officials have flagged Covid-19 restrictions could ease once that figure reaches 70 per cent, which could be as soon as September 19.
Regional Victoria is set to come out of lockdown first, with the Premier flagging that could happen this week.
But Mr Andrews said no concrete decision had been made, with meetings set to continue over until a final call was made.
Health Minister Martin Foley said the path out of lockdown would not be a “snapback” to the freedoms the state experienced in April or May.
“The regions may continue to be at risk, as we have seen with a combination of importing the virus particularly from NSW and making sure that the metropolitan Melbourne leaks don’t get into our regions,” he said
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