Victoria has recorded another 18 COVID-19 deaths, as case numbers continue to trend downwards.
The number of people in hospital after contracting the virus now sits at 465, down from the 487 reported on Friday.
Of those patients, 62 are in intensive care, down from the 79 patients in ICU on Friday.
There are 17 people on ventilators.
The state reported 7,223 new infections — 2,364 from PCR results and 4,859 from rapid antigen tests.
It takes the number of officially reported active infections to 54,494, which is down from 55,102 yesterday.
About 50 per cent of the state's adult population has now had a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Victoria's Code Brown alert and freeze on elective surgeries will be rolled back starting from tomorrow, following a declining trend in COVID-19 case numbers.
"Elective surgery is happening again, and we'll have to back to 100 per cent across both the private and public system as soon as we possibly can," Premier Daniel Andrews said.
However the government has indicated it has no plans to ease restrictions further, with QR code check-ins still required despite health authorities conceding it is "practically impossible" to conduct contact tracing.
Mr Andrews said the government was aiming to keep its policies as consistent as possible with those in NSW.
"The use of QR codes is under very active review at the moment, as are all of our rules and we hope to make some announcements quite soon," he said.
"Now that we've hit the peak of Omicron, now those cases are coming down we do have some room to make some refinements and some adjustments."
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