Premier Daniel Andrews says Victorians have every reason to feel optimistic after the state recorded just two new coronavirus cases and no deaths in the past 24 hours.
The new case count is Victoria's lowest since June 9 when zero infections were recorded, weeks before the state's deadly second wave took hold.
"Today is a day where we can be optimistic and we can be positive and we can all of us as Victorians look at all that we have achieved," Mr Andrews told reporters on Friday.
"We have stayed the course. We have not let our frustration get the better of us. We have made a conscious decision to defeat this second wave."
Melbourne's 14-day rolling average now sits at 8.7 cases, with 17 unknown cases in the past fortnight, while the regional average remains at 0.6.
There are no mystery cases in regional Victoria.
One of Victoria's two new cases lives in the Dandenong local government area and is linked to a known outbreak, while the other, in Knox, is under investigation.
There are 14 people are in hospital, with none receiving intensive care.
The state's death toll remains at 816 and the national figure 904.
If low case numbers continue, the premier said the state was well placed to ease restrictions on Sunday, albeit in a steady, safe way.
He said the changes will be in the "more in social space than it is in the economic space".
The "hard border" between the city and regional Victoria will remain.
"Regional Victoria will be able to go further again, beyond the scope of the rules that they're in now," Mr Andrews said.
There is further good news out of Shepparton, where three people contracted the virus from the truck driver connected to the Chadstone cluster.
Mr Andrews said about 2000 tests conducted on Wednesday have come back negative.
He described the testing effort as a "deeply impressive thing".
A Melbourne truck driver has been referred to Victoria Police after he initially failed to disclose he had visited Shepparton on September 30 while infected.
It only came to light earlier this week after the first of the three infected people went for testing, leaving health authorities scrambling to contain the virus.
The driver, who was infected in the Chadstone Shopping Centre outbreak, previously had admitted to visiting Benalla and Kilmore on September 29-30.
He visited the towns on a worker's permit and illegally dined at a Kilmore cafe, sparking an outbreak there.
The truckie also stayed overnight in Kilmore on September 29.
The day-11 tests of the people of Kilmore who have been in isolation have all returned negative results.
"People have been cleared, they haven't got it," Mr Andrews said.
