Half of Victorians aged five to 11 vaccinated as COVID-19 hospitalisations drop - 9News

Almost half of Victorian children aged five to 11 have received a COVID-19 vaccine as the state's number of hospitalised virus patients continues to drop.

Elective surgery has also resumed in private hospitals in Victoria for the first time in more than a month.

Victoria has recorded 8275 new cases of COVID-19 overnight and a further seven deaths in people with the virus, taking the number of known active cases in the state to 59,801.

Some elective surgery will resume in private hospitals in Victoria today. (Nine)

There are 72 COVID-19 patients in intensive care and 26 on ventilators.

The number of eligible adults who have had a booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine has reached 45 per cent.

Victorian Education Minister James Merlino said 50 per cent of children aged five to 11 will have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of today.

"But we still have a long way to go," he said.

Elective surgery resumes

Private hospitals and day surgery clinics are allowed to recommence elective day surgery up to 50 per cent of their normal levels from today for the first time since category two and three elective surgery was suspended on January 6.

Mr Merlino today said the limits on the number of elective surgery procedures able to take place would be increased as soon as possible.

"We're waiting on capacity within our health system," he said.

"We heard very clearly from nurses last week that they're not robots.

"This is a health system under extreme stress."

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Australian Orthopaedic Association chair Dr Adrian Trivett has pushed for hospitals to be able to make their own decisions about what operations they perform, saying the government's "broad-brush approach" to banning elective procedures was not serving patients and staff.

However, the Nursing and Midwifery Federation has called for the pause on elective surgery extended, with the federation's Paul Gilbert saying nurses wanted to see hospitalisations fall much lower before moving back.

Elective surgery has also resumed in some capacity in New South Wales and South Australia today, following similar bans due to COVID-19.

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