Children aged three to five will be able to get free rapid antigen tests, with Victoria expanding its voluntary school COVID-19 testing program to early childhood services.
The state recorded 20 COVID-19 deaths and another 9785 infections on Tuesday, an increase of more than 1500 from the previous day's tally.
The fresh cases include 7216 from rapid antigen tests and 2569 from PCR tests, bringing the number of total active cases in the state to 58,449.