Victoria now has 114,000 Victorian teenagers eligible for a COVID-19 booster vaccine after regulators approved the third dose for 16- and 17-year-olds.
The state recorded another 34 COVID-related deaths and 12,157 new cases on Thursday, as the number of people in hospital battling the virus hit a three-week low.
The new cases include 5588 from PCR tests and 6569 from rapid antigen tests.