Victoria has notched up another 14,836 new Covid cases and 29 deaths in the past 24 hours while the hospitalisation rate continues to stabilise.
Victoria recorded 14,836 new cases and 29 Covid deaths in the past 24 hours.
There are now 1057 infected people in Victorian hospitals, with 119 in intensive care and 45 on ventilators.
Victoria’s pre-Omicron peak for Covid hospitalisations was 851 in October when the state was battling a surge in Delta infections.
However, the figure is dwarfed by the 2943 people in NSW who are in hospital with Covid.
More than 93 per cent of eligible Victorians are fully vaccinated and the state has a mammoth 183,154 active cases.
A total of 30,726 PCR tests were taken on Wednesday and 27,908 vaccines were administered at state hubs.
It comes amid a mass recruitment blitz is set to put a stop to part of Victoria’s supply chain crisis, with hundreds of workers needed across the state’s supermarkets.
Premier Daniel Andrews made the announcement on Monday morning, with state-run Jobs Victoria recruiting people for roles including shelf stacking and distribution.
More than 2000 people have already expressed interest in the program.
Coles’ executive manager of central operations, Kevin Gunn, said the scheme would help ease Omicron-induced supply issues.
“Every part of the food supply chain has seen increased numbers of staff isolating, from farmers, food processors and the transport sector to our distribution centres and stores,” he said.
“The end result has been fewer products available for customers.”
Mr Andrews also acknowledged more vaccine doses were administered over the weekend than any other since October.
“It’s the biggest weekend we’ve had in many months,” he said.
“That growth is steady, it’s great, but we have to do more and we have to do better.”
Originally published as Victoria records 14,836 new Covid cases, 29 deaths
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