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Premier Daniel Andrews could be given more power to declare pandemics and enforce emergency laws under legislation set to replace Victorias current state of emergency framework.

Victoria has recorded 1,750 new local COVID-19 cases and nine deaths in the 24 hours to midnight, the Department of Health announced on Saturday.

I Cook Foods director Ian Cook says the latest Parliamentary inquiry report into the Dandenong South commercial caterer’s closure raises […]

Department of Health senior officials have been cleared of deliberately misleading a Parliamentary inquiry into the forced closure of I […]

For the first time since August, the seven-day average COVID-19 cases in Victoria has dropped, allowing Chief Health Officer Professor Sutton to be "cautiously optimistic" the state has turned a critical point in the outbreak.

Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton said Victoria is "on track" with Burnet Institute modelling that suggests hospitalisations will reach between 1,400 and 2,900 cases by the end of October.

Daniel Andrews wife posts old photo of the premier at work with He doesnt stop - as record Covid numbers shock Victoria and hospitals are at breaking point. The state tally is now close to NSW peak.

Daniel Andrews will make Victorians wait another day to find out when the states fifth lockdown will end, as 11 more cases were recorded. The Victorian premier told reporters on Sunday morning that health experts will have to look at the number of new infections on Monday before they decide whether restrictions will be eased on Tuesday, as planned. Hopefully we could be in a position to ease some of these restrictions and rules from midnight on Tuesday, but we need to see what tomorrows number...

The husband of a woman who travelled from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast via NSW also tests positive to coronavirus in Queensland