VICTORIA has recorded 1007 new COVID-19 cases as Australia goes on alert for any signs of a new coronavirus variant.
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A total of 300 people were in Victorian hospitals on Sunday, 45 in intensive care units and 17 on ventilators.
Data released from the Department of Health on Monday showed another three people have died statewide.
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Another 48,397 people were tested for the virus at clinics across the state.
Australia's national security committee will meet later on Monday to reconsider the staged border reopening to students and visa holders following the emergence of the new coronavirus strain named omicron.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged calm after the strain was confirmed in two fully vaccinated people travelling from southern Africa who arrived in Sydney over the weekend.
"It is important we just calmly and carefully consider this information, work together, take the decisions that are necessary and that is exactly what everybody is doing," he told the Seven Network on Monday.
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