TWO more COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Victoria.
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Of the new coronavirus cases one has been acquired locally and the other is in hotel quarantine.
The new cases take the state's number of active coronavirus cases to 21
Data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows there were 25,144 tests yesterday.
Yesterday health minister Martin Foley said announced the state government had tripled the COVID-19 testing capacity at the public laboratories.
The laboratories can now process about 30,000 tests a day with most results turned around in less than 24 hours.
Mr Foley said testing turnarounds are now at a speedy 17 hours.
"The people of Victoria need to be reassured that it is very likely that if they get a test in the afternoon, that they will have the result that the next day," he said.
"People from our pathology labs are some of the unsung heroes of our pandemic response and I want to give them a particular shout out."
Since January 1, Victoria has processed 4,694,136 coronavirus tests.
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