Victoria recorded 423 new cases in the past 24 hours to midnight, with 149 of the cases linked to known cases and outbreaks, as the state waits for Premier Daniel Andrews to announce which restrictions will be lifted this weekend.
Two people were reported to have died with Covid-19.
The deaths bring the toll from the current outbreak to eight deaths.
One of those deaths was confirmed yesterday by the Australian Services Union as 46-year-old Martin Blight.
The Victorian Health Department reported that 41,856 vaccines were administered and 54,649 test results were received during the period.
Today's number is a slight drop on the 445 local cases announced yesterday.
Daniel Andrews will finally announce Victoria's roadmap to freedom on Sunday after abandoning his aim to eliminate Covid-19.
Daniel Andrews (pictured) will finally announce Victoria's roadmap to freedom on Sunday after abandoning his aim to eliminate Covid-19
Victorians desperate to get back to the pub are waiting for Mr Andrews' roadmap. Pictured: The Cherry Bar in the CBD before lockdown
The premier will set out what freedoms will be restored to Melbourne residents in the coming weeks as the state's vaccination rate steadily increases.
Nearly 68 percent of eligible Victorian residents had now received one dose of the Covid vaccine, while 41.4 percent had been fully vaccinated with two doses.
But Mr Andrews warned that unlike in NSW which is reducing restrictions based on vaccination rates alone, Victoria will also take into account Covid-19 hospitalisation rates.
'There will be a map that talks about what we are going to do for the rest of September, October and November,' he told reporters on Tuesday.
'It will be subject to all sorts of things like how many people are in hospital.'
Mr Andrews said the roadmap 'will give people a clear sense of what we're working towards.'
If the plan is similar to NSW's roadmap then gyms and pubs will be allowed to re-open with distancing requirements when 70 per cent of the state is vaccinated - but no details have been revealed so far.
Mr Andrews' political opponents have been demanding a plan for weeks and criticised him for admitting he didn't even read the NSW roadmap.
'The Victorian Labor Government has admitted it hasn't even read the NSW plan to freedom. That tells you everything. Labor has no interest in ending the lockdown and doesn't care about offering hope to our state,' said Liberal frontbencher James Newbury.
It comes as Victoria's Covid-19 outbreaks continues to grow despite one of the harshest lockdowns in the world.
People exercise at Albert Park Lake in Melbourne, Victoria during lockdown
If the plan is similar to NSW's roadmap then gyms and pubs (pictured) will be allowed to re-open with distancing requirements when 70 per cent of the state is vaccinated
While the latest tally is a slight drop from Monday's 473 infections - the highest daily total in this outbreak - authorities have warned Victorians to remain vigilant as tearooms in essential workplaces pose the greatest risk of transmission.
Officials have launched a crackdown on construction workers amid concerns the state's Covid crisis has become a pandemic of the young and vaccinated, with alarming new data revealing the regions with the lowest jab numbers.
The latest federal data from September shows Melbourne City Council area has the lowest vaccination rate of any LGA with a first dose rate of 54.2 per cent followed by the Hume region at 55 per cent, according to Covid Live.
The state government is continuing to develop a roadmap out of lockdown, including a plan to return students to classrooms in term four (pictured, a local exercises in Southbank on Monday)
Statewide, only around 40 per cent of eligible Victorians are fully vaccinated and around 65 per cent have had their first dose - after 36,615 vaccines were administered in the past 24 hours.
The lagging vaccination rate places Victoria more than three weeks behind NSW in reaching the 70 per cent double dose target, which the northern state expects to hit in mid-October.
Meanwhile, compliance and vaccination blitzes have been launched across the Victorian building industry, with the sector put on notice it could lose its ability to keep working during lockdowns.
Some 13 per cent of the state's cases have been traced to building sites, with tradies lashed at Monday's Covid briefing for regularly ignoring lockdown rules and spreading the virus 20km across Melbourne.
The industry will be subjected to an extraordinary 'zero tolerance' Covid crackdown with fifty compliance teams deployed to sites across the state to ensure workers are following mask orders and social distancing properly.
This graph shows the progression of Victoria's Covid oubreaks as the state recorded 445 new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday
All but 38 of the new infections reside in Melbourne's northern and western suburbs, which are subject to a three-week vaccination blitz (pictured, health workers at a vaccine hub in Melbourne on Monday)
From July 1, on-the-spot fines for authorised worker breaches increased to up to $1817 for
