Victoria records 1193 new Covid cases, 13 deaths

Victoria has recorded 1193 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours and 13 deaths.

Victoria has recorded 1193 new Covid-19 cases and 13 deaths on Saturday.

It now brings the total number of active infections in the state to 11,457.

There are currently 323 people hospitalised with 68 in ICU. Of those, 29 are on ventilators.

There were 82,895 tests conducted on Friday.

The state’s vaccination rate has increased to about 92 per cent, with 4056 doses administers yesterday at state-run clinics.

There were 1193 Covid-19 cases recorded in Victoria on Saturday. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nicki Connolly

On Friday, 1206 infections were reported as well as two deaths.

Victoria recorded its first case of the new Omicron variant on Wednesday.

There are now three confirmed cases of the variant in Victoria, but Premier Daniel Andrews said authorities were not chasing “an Omicron zero strategy”.

That was because it wasn’t the “smart thing to do” and wasn’t achievable.

“We’ll be guided by the growing body of international evidence about the transmissibility and infectivity of this new variant but also the relatively positive signs that the disease is milder and certainly not more severe than the Delta variant,” Mr Andrews said.