The health department confirmed the new figures about 8.30am after the state broke the national record for the highest number of new daily cases for the second day in a row the previous day.Sunday’s figure is a slight dip on Saturday’s 1965 new cases, but is still the state’s second highest day ever.The new deaths takes the number of lives lost during the outbreak to 85 and the death toll of the entire pandemic in Victoria to 905.At least 578 positive Covid patients are in hospital in Victoria, with 117 of those in intensive care, including 83 cases on a ventilator.But despite the record levels of new cases, authorities have maintained the state’s reopening road map remains “on track” with lockdown set to end around October 26 when 70 per cent of Victorians aged 16 and older are fully vaccinated.As of Saturday, 85.6 per cent of Victorians aged 16 and over had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 57 per cent were fully vaccinated.Premier Daniel Andrews committed to ending the lockdown as planned when the state reached 70 per cent fully vaccinated.“We are on track to meet the targets. We may be ahead of schedule but I don’t want any sense of complacency to creep in,” he said last week.“At this stage, I’ve got no advice that we have to alter anything on the road map.”The NSW lockdown will end on Monday after the state reached the 70 per cent double dose target last week.There are 18,342 active coronavirus cases in Victoria.Department of Health deputy secretary Kate Matson has warned Victoria could reach 3000 daily case by the end of this month.“At this point in time, we are on track in terms of hospitalisations and new cases,” she said.“But I will remind you there is a middle line and an upper and lower band, and we are still within that band.”Victoria has recorded 11,794 in the past week alone.
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