As more than a million students return to school, Victoria is being warned COVID-19 case numbers will begin to climb again, just as infections were trending down.
The state recorded 10,053 new COVID-19 infections and another eight deaths on Monday, 3568 from PCR tests and 6485 from rapid antigen tests.
The total number of active cases in the state has dropped to 76,335, while hospitalisations with COVID-19 have fallen by 16 to 873 patients.
