Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says it’s “only a matter of time” before people will need three doses of a Covid jab in order to be considered fully vaccinated.
It comes as the state reported 10,589 new infections and 20 deaths on Sunday.
Currently only 31 per cent of Victorians have received a booster shot, despite hundreds of thousands of appointments now being available and 2.1 million people now eligible.
“I think it’s only a matter of time before the relevant federal agencies confirm that it is three doses to be protected,” he said.
“We will wait to see how that unfolds over the course of the next week or so.
“As we head into winter, being three-dosed protected is incredibly important to take some pressure off our nurses and ambos.”
In the latest reporting period, 4479 of the new cases were reported from PCR tests and 6110 cases were from rapid antigen tests.
The total number of active cases in the state was 78,294, down from 79,836 reported on Saturday and 101,605 on Friday.
There were 889 patients in Victorian hospitals being treated with the virus.
Of those in hospital, 111 people are being treated in intensive care, with 35 people on ventilators.
Victorian health authorities said on Saturday they had detected cases of the new Omicron subvariant.
