Victoria has recorded eight COVID-related deaths and 9,426 new cases.
It's the highest daily count of new cases in Victoria since 9,391 infections were reported on February 10.
It takes the total number of active infections to 42,250.
There are 201 coronavirus patients in Victorian hospitals, up from 197 a day earlier.
Of those people, 24 are in intensive care units and six are receiving ventilation.
Nearly 63 per cent of Victorian adults have now received three vaccine doses and 94 per cent of those aged 12 and older have received at least two.
Of the new cases, 7,401 were detected through rapid antigen tests, and 2,025 through PCR tests.
Epidemiologists expect Victoria will see an increase in COVID-19 cases in coming months, due to the highly transmissible new Omicron variant BA.2.
Victoria University public health expert Maximilian de Courten said it was too early to consider reintroducing some COVID-19 restrictions because of the new variant.
Professor de Courten said home testing kits were not able to determine which variant a person had contracted.
"We cannot distinguish which COVID variant we are testing so we actually don't know in the population how quickly this new variant is spreading," he told ABC Radio Melbourne.
Professor de Courten said health authorities would have "one eye on the speedometer" when assessing whether the growth in cases was putting more pressure on hospitals, which he said did not yet appear to be the case.
"If that would change then certainly we would have to revise our strategy of loosening the public health protection measures," Professor de Courten said.
