An emergency national cabinet meeting will be held on Tuesday amid rising numbers of COVID-19 cases linked to the Omicron variant.
Victoria reported 1302 additional infections. The state has 406 people in hospital including 81 in intensive care.
It has also opened to fully vaccinated travellers and has scrapped quarantine requirements for arrivals. "The Omicron variant, obviously, creates another dimension to needing to deal with the virus and I think it's going to continue to throw challenges up for us."
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