Victoria is set to confirm its worst day of the pandemic, with 532 new cases recorded overnight.
Media reports indicate Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews will confirm the record figure today.
The previous highest number was 484 last Wednesday.
It follows the state’s deadliest day on Sunday when 10 people lost their lives to the virus.
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But the Herald Sun reports there are predictions up to 75 people could die from the virus in the state this week.
It would follow a worldwide trend where when virus cases rise, hospitalisations and deaths follow seven to 10 days later.
Mirroring the increase in case numbers from 10 days earlier, across the past seven days, the state’s death toll reads one, three, two, five, seven, five and 10.
Victorians have been sparking outrage refusing to wear asks over the weekend, filming themselves confronting police or store employees.
Deputy national chief medical officer, Dr Nick Coatsworth, said videos of Victorians openly defying mask rules in stores were “deeply disturbing”.
In particular he drew attention to a woman who was slammed after her outburst at Bunnings staff members in the Melbourne suburb of Narre Warren on Friday.
“It’s clearly very disturbing when you see that sort of footage of one Australian citizen putting others in a very difficult situation and I just want to commend the Bunnings staff,” he told the Today show.
“I have seen the footage myself. They did a remarkable job staying calm against behaviour that is frankly unacceptable. What we can take away is that the vast majority of Australians find them unacceptable.”
Dr Coatsworth said it wasn’t a human rights issue to decide not to wear a mask.
“It’s such a simple intervention,” he said.
“I just can’t see how it takes away someone’s human rights or individual liberty to just have to put a face covering on at the request of government. It is simple. We know it’s effective. We know it’s the time to do it.”
Victoria recorded 459 new cases on Sunday among the 10 deaths, with a man in his 40s one of the latest casualties.
The surge was almost 100 cases higher than figures recorded on Saturday.
The 10 deaths include seven men aged between 40 and 80 years, and three women in their 70s and 80s.
Seven of the 10 fatalities are linked to aged care outbreaks. At least 228 people are in hospital and 42 are in intensive care.
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