Victoria has recorded six new cases of COVID-19 in hotel quarantine as the state reached 19 days of no locally acquired infections, one year after the state's first reported case.
The latest figures come as the much-anticipated Pfizer vaccine for the virus was provisionally approved today.
More than 11,000 people were tested yesterday.
https://twitter.com/VicGovDHHS/status/1353448596612517895?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwThe Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) confirmed the approval for people aged 16 and older this morning.
It is the first vaccine to receive regulatory approval in Australia.
The latest advice given to the government from Pfizer is that shipping and the first vaccinations are expected to be in late February.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said approval of the Pfizer vaccine comes 12 months after the first case of coronavirus was detected in Australia.
"It is a year today since the first case of COVID-19 in Australia. What an extraordinary year it has been," Mr Morrison said.
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"A year on from that fateful day, Australia, we know, has done better and managed this together, working together better than almost any other country in the world today."
Recipients of the Pfizer vaccine will need two doses taken 21 days apart.
Priority will be given to frontline healthcare workers, aged care residents and staff and quarantine workers.
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