A Victorian man in his 90s has died as the state recorded 216 new cases of coronavirus on Friday.
Premier Daniel Andrews said on Saturday that the state had now recorded 3560 cases of coronavirus.
There has been a net increase of 181 new cases after 35 were reclassified.
There are now 1249 active cases in the state.
Premier Daniel Andrews offered his condolences to the family of the man who passed away.
Mr Andrews and Health Minister Jenny Mikakos thanked everyone who had come forward for testing.
“Without this data and sense of how the virus is moving, you can’t get to their close contacts or put in place a strategy to get them isolated at home,” Mr Andrews said.
The news comes after Victoria recorded 288 new cases on Friday prompting the state government to recommend people where masks in areas where social distancing was not possible.
Thirty of the new cases are connected to known outbreaks. There are 49 Victorians in hospital and 15 of those are in intensive care.
About five million Victorians in metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire are under strict stay-at-home orders after weeks of worrying transmission of the deadly virus.
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