Victoria has recorded its slowest day of COVID-19 growth in two weeks.
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In the last 24 hours, there were another 49 COVID-19 cases confirmed, bringing the state's total to 1085.
This was the smallest 24-hour growth since March 20.
However, the death toll continues to rise, with three deaths in the last two days.
An elderly man was the latest to die after contracting coronavirus, bringing the state's death toll from the illness to seven.
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton confirmed a man in his 80s died in hospital overnight.
"He was in intensive care. We have another seven who are in intensive care. It is a serious situation," he said.
Professor Sutton said there has been some flattening of the curve - the rate at which people are becoming infected - but more needs to be done.
"We have gone from doubling our numbers every three or four days to now doubling every seven days, so that's an improvement," he said.
"But we don't want to be doubling every seven days ongoing, we need to keep at it and continue to flatten that curve."
Three of the seven COVID-19 deaths in Victoria have been patients at The Alfred Hospital, the facility confirmed on Thursday.
Another two patients from the haematology and oncology ward have tested positive for the virus but are in a stable condition, while 10 staff members who have the virus are recovering at home.
The hospital has introduced further restrictions on visitors and put in place temperature screening of all visitors.
Professor Sutton said the source of the cluster of infections isn't known, but the hospital is doing "everything possible to get on top of it" and he believes that they will."
It does illustrate the fact that when you are looking after very vulnerable patients in hospital, settings like this, you have to be absolutely strict about everything, including visitors and the screening of visitors.
"Everyone in the community also has a role to play in keeping the illness away from vulnerable people, he stressed.
"It starts with us, the more that we can apply the social distancing measures that we are all talking about, the fewer cases we will have, the less likely the introduction into our hospital and aged care and other settings will be."
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