Premier Daniel Andrews said there were also 39 community-transmitted cases.

Andrews announced a $1.3 billion funding boost to help Victoria’s healthcare system tackle the pandemic as the state comes dangerously close to passing 1000 confirmed cases.

He said the additional funding was to ensure Victoria had “the critical care capacity, the beds, the gowns, the masks, the ventilators, all the equipment, so that we have the capacity to treat many thousands of patients”.

The funding will increase the number of intensive care beds in Victoria from 500 to 4500.

Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said it was the biggest expansion of intensive care capacity in Victoria’s history.

She also said 9000 beds were on standby from private hospitals.

“I hope we never have to use them,” she added.

Andrews said 32 coronavirus patients were in Victorian hospitals, including six in intensive care.

Mikakos said intensive care beds required additional staff and equipment like ventilators, IV infusion pumps, patient monitors and dialysis machines that would be purchased with the extra money.

“This is worst-case scenario planning,” she said.

“We certainly hope that we will never need to actually use this type of capacity in Victoria, and it’s incumbent on all of us to do our bit and to make sure that this capacity won’t actually be needed.

“It fills me with dread to think that we may have thousands of Victorians on ventilators in intensive care beds.”

Mikakos said if people continued to stay at home and follow social distancing rules, the state would hopefully not have to use all the extra capacity.

Andrews said at least eight fines had been issued for people breaching quarantine restrictions introduced on Monday.

He said the fines were issued to people who breached the two-person rule and others who left their home before finishing 14 days of quarantine.

There have been a further 145 international arrivals quarantined in hotels across the state in the past 24 hours.

The total number of people under enforced isolation in hotels in Victoria is now 951.

Andrews said the social distancing measures implemented in Victoria were making a difference.

“It is helping us to suppress the total number of cases, to flatten the curve as we sometimes say, to protect our health system and to save lives,” he said.

Victoria has registered four deaths from coronavirus to date.