Victoria has recorded 1275 new locally-acquired COVID-19 cases along with four deaths.
The state is managing more than 9630 cases. Some 317 patients are in hospital, slightly down on the seven-day average of 346.
Fifty-six people are in intensive care, with 25 on ventilation.
Virus testers processed 61,650 results in the 24 hours to Saturday evening.
Victoria is 93.4 per cent single-dosed for those aged 12 and over and 89.1 per cent are fully vaccinated.
The state has recorded 1277 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. The latest deaths were of people aged in their 60s, 70s and 80s.
Victoria reported 1166 new cases on Saturday as thousands of protesters brought parts of central Melbourne to a standstill, and a child under 10 become Australia's youngest COVID-19 fatality.
The demonstrators rallied against the state's contentious pandemic bill - which stalled in the upper house last week - and vaccine mandates.
Watched by police outside parliament house, the crowd chanted "Kill the bill" while carrying placards featuring a range of anti-government and anti-vaccine mandate slogans.
Despite the significant numbers, police declared the protest peaceful with only one arrest made.
Independent MP Catherine Cumming, who said she would vote in favour of the bill if the government scrapped mandates, led a "No more mandates" and "Sack Dan Andrews" chant.
"We are adults. We make our own decisions for our children. Get out of our lives, Daniel," she said.
A counter demonstration at the nearby Eight Hour Day Monument attracted a smaller crowd.
A scuffle broke out near Lygon Street between a well-known right-wing activist and anti-fascist protesters before police intervened.
Organiser Nahui Jimenez said Campaign Against Racism and Fascism rallies in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth were designed to draw attention to the "growth of conspiratorial, anti-human and fascistic (sic) politics".
"Hostility to vaccines has become a gateway to the far right globally," she said.
It has been reported figures associated with the neo-Nazi movement have recently joined the protesters, who on Monday evening staged a mock execution of the premier using wooden gallows.
Key Victorian crossbench MP Andy Meddick's daughter Kielan was also allegedly attacked on a Fitzroy street on Thursday night after being confronted by an unknown man for spray painting an anti-vax poster.
This weekend is the first since Victoria lifted the majority of its lockdown laws for the fully vaccinated.
