A bevy of Covid restrictions are set to be scrapped in Victoria, the Premier has announced.
Daniel Andrews said the changes would come into play from Friday at 6pm.
Density limits in hospitality and entertainment venues will end and indoor dancefloors are set to reopen.
QR codes in retail, schools and childcare centres will no longer be needed.
Masks will remain compulsory indoors and rules around working from home will remain in place until at least next Friday.
Victoria recorded 8501 new cases and nine Covid deaths in the past 24 hours.
There are now 401 infected people in Victorian hospitals, with 78 in intensive care and 16 on ventilators.
More than 93 per cent of eligible Victorians are fully vaccinated and the state has 50,042 active cases.
A total of 23,683 PCR tests were taken on Wednesday and 9356 vaccines were administered at state hubs.
