Victoria has had its highest day for Covid deaths since 2020, while also recording almost 8000 new cases.
Victoria has recorded 7810 Covid-19 cases and 41 deaths on Saturday.
It is the highest death toll in the state since September 2020 when the state recorded 59 people losing their lives with Covid in a single day.
There were also 687 people in hospitals with coronavirus, while the latest figures have 80 in intensive care, of which 31 are on ventilators.
It comes after the state recorded 11,240 cases and 752 hospitalisations on Friday.
On Thursday there were 12,157 cases and 707 in hospital.
Victoria has reversed its ban on non-urgent elective surgeries with some private and day procedure centres to resume at half capacity from next week.
From February 7 Victorian authorities will allow private hospitals and day procedure centres to recommence surgery to up to 50 per cent of their normal practice levels. It comes after the government banned all non trauma or category one surgeries amid the spread of Omicron.
If numbers continue to fall, authorities will look at continuing further elective surgeries in the state systems in the weeks ahead, with a goal to initially operate at 75 per cent capacity in regional areas and 50 per cent in the metropolitan public health system.
Originally published as Victoria records 7810 Covid-19 cases on Saturday
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