The cases were detected from 71,224 test results bringing the state’s total number of active cases to 11,591.It comes after Victoria recorded 1143 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday and recorded an almost 50 per cent jump in infections on Thursday with 1438 new cases.Saturday’s figures outstrips the previous record set on Thursday by 53 cases. Both Moorabool Shire, west of Melbourne, and Shepparton have now entered into a snap week long lockdown following a rise of cases in the local government areas. Restrictions that apply will be the same as those in metropolitan Melbourne, excluding the curfew.On Friday, Premier Daniel Andrews put authorised workers on notice, handing them more a two week deadline to receive at least one dose of the Covid-19 jab. The mandate will require everyone on the authorised worker list across Melbourne and regional Victoria to have received at least one jab by October 15 and to be double-dosed by November 26.“It is critically important that we do not see these cases continue to climb and go up and up and up so that our hospital system is under immense pressure even before we open up,” Mr Andrews said. “We just won’t do that to our nurses, to our doctors, to all of our teams of those dedicated health professionals.”But the deadline will not apply to sectors that already have existing vaccine requirements such as those in construction, aged care and education.It comes as the Victorian Government has announced a major Moderna blitz across southeast Melbourne.Close to 37,000 thousand doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were administered across the state on Friday.
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