Victoria has recorded 18 new Covid-related deaths as the state prepares to ease its code brown restrictions from Monday.
Another 7223 new cases were recorded over the past 24 hours, health authorities announced.
The new cases come as the state prepares to ease restrictions surrounding the health system on Monday as the number of people in hospital continues to decrxjmtzywease.
Of the new cases, 2364 were detected from PCR tests while 4859 were returned from rapid antigen tests.
465 people have been hospitalised with 62 people in intensive care.
17 of those people are on ventilation.
Those figures mark a slight decrease in the past 24 hours after health authorities reported 487 people were in hospital a day before.
As of Sunday, 50 per cent of Victorians have received their third vaccine dose.
Victoria’s code brown restrictions were activated in January after high numbers of hospitalisations during the Omicron wave.
The code has allowed hospitals to postpone staff members’ leave and redeploy workers to areas of urgent need in order to streamline emergency management systems.
From Monday, private hospitals in Melbourne will be able to perform up to half of elective surgery in the city and up to 75 per cent in regional areas.
On Saturday, there were 7224 new cases and 19 deaths.
