There are now 19,994 active cases of the virus in Victoria, and 683 people have died during the current outbreak.
There are 397 people in hospital in Victoria with active COVID-19 infections, of whom 62 are in intensive care and 28 are on a ventilator.
The health department said a further 44 people were in ICU but their infections were no longer considered active.Several testing centres in Melbourne had already reached capacity shortly after opening on Wednesday morning. Testing centres at Tarneit, Deer Park, Maidstone, Fitzroy, Albert Park, the Alfred Hospital, Chadstone, Burwood, Wantirna, Clayton, Cheltenham, Keysborough, Dandenong, Berwick, Frankston, and Melbourne's CBD were turning people away before 9am.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.What you need to know about coronavirus:
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