Victoria has reported a further 17 COVID-19 deaths, as more workers prepare to return to offices from Monday.
There are 274 COVID-19 patients in Victorian hospitals, a decrease on the 281 reported on Saturday.
There are 38 patients in intensive care units, five of whom are on ventilators.
The state has recorded 5,052 new cases, taking the total number of active infections to 41,038.
Victorians are being encouraged to start returning to offices from tomorrow, after the recommendation to work from home where possible was lifted.
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said he expected many people would choose to continue working from home.
"My feeling is people will come back to some degree but there is a lot that we have learnt about our ability to work from home and our desire to work from home, the flexibility, and actually the productivity and wellbeing that we've been able to maintain working from home," he said.
Professor Sutton warned the state would likely continue to see thousands of new COVID-19 cases per day.
"It is slowly coming down in terms of that case load but the overall numbers won't drop really rapidly," he said.
"With the Omicron variant [which is] very transmissible, we're going to see continued case numbers."
But he said he did not expect case numbers to increase significantly either, even with many people returning to work and mask mandates being wound back.
Victoria has now hit 94 per cent of people aged 12 and older who have received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 58.6 per cent of adults have received three doses.
Calls for more triple-0 operators
Opposition Emergency Services spokesman Brad Battin has criticised "unacceptable" reductions in Victoria's emergency hotline call-takers, at a time when the system is under increased pressure from COVID-19.
He said data showed police call-takers were down 4.6 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff, fire call-takers down 4.1 FTE staff and ambulance call-takers down 2.3 FTE staff in the 12 months to June 2021.
"Triple-0 delays cost lives. It's unacceptable that call-taking staff are being slashed as Victorians are being denied the emergency help they deserve," he said.
A Government spokesperson said the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (ESTA) had recruited 43 new FTE staff since July 2021.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on systems around the world – no emergency response agency in the world has been immune to this, including ESTA," they said.
"We know there's always room for improvement — that's why we work with oversight bodies like the IGEM [Inspector General for Emergency Management] and the Fire Services Implementation Monitor to improve standards and keep Victorians safe."
