Victoria has recorded no new locally acquired cases of coronavirus as Melbourne emerges from a two-week lockdown.
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The Health Department on Friday confirmed there were no new local cases in the state and just one new case in hotel quarantine.
It marks the first day without a local case of COVID-19 since late May, when a family tested positive for the virus and ended the state's 86-day streak without a case of community transmission.
The outbreak spread through the local government area of Whittlesea and the seaside suburb of Port Melbourne and forced Melbourne into a two-week "circuit breaker" lockdown, which ended on Friday.
Some 17,604 Victorians were tested in the 24 hours to Friday morning, while 20,752 received a coronavirus vaccine dose.
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There are 75 active cases of COVID-19 in the state, including those in hotel quarantine, down from 78 on Thursday.
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