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Victoria records 25 coronavirus deaths, 282 new cases
By Adam Carey and Kate Lahey
Another 25 people have died of coronavirus in Victoria in the past day, and the state has recorded 282 new cases.
It marks the deadliest day for the nation since the pandemic began and brings the number of deaths in Australia to 421.
With Victorians spending more time in their homes under stage four and stage three restrictions, the government today announced a $20 million boost for family violence services.
This includes funding for a program that will enable 1500 perpetrators of family violence, or people who fear they are at risk of using it, to leave their homes and move into short- or long-term accommodation.
Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence Gabrielle Williams said there had been an 11 per cent spike in demand for perpetrator services during the pandemic.
Premier Daniel Andrews said 22 of the 25 deaths in the past day were linked to aged care.
The 25 Victorians who died include one man in his 60s, four women and three men in their 70s, six women and four men in their 80s and four women and three men in their 90s.
There are 657 Victorians in hospital, 44 of them in intensive care, including 32 on ventilators.
The cumulative total number of deaths in aged care in Victoria since the outbreak began is 216, Mr Andrews said.
After a recent rise in cases in regional Victoria, especially in Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo, the Premier said case numbers were coming down. "We have some 436 that are in those regional local government areas that are covered by stage three restrictions," he said.
An inquiry into Victoria’s hotel quarantine program, which has been linked with the state’s second wave of COVID-19, resumed today.
Genomic tracing by the Doherty Institute linked nearly all of Victoria’s second-surge outbreaks to quarantine hotels.
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