* The Australian Government Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd on Saturday said this past week alone has accounted for 11 per cent of all locally-acquired COVID-19 cases in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.

* Qantas has unveiled plans for its flight schedule once international borders reopen on November 1 with flights to New York and London to begin that day.

* Melbourne residents are enjoying their first weekend out of lockdown as the Victorian capital exited its sixth and last lockdown on Friday after the state reached vaccination targets.

* Victoria has added a further 1750 new infections to its caseload, all but two of them locally acquired as well as nine deaths.

* Protesters rallied outside a Melbourne hotel being used to detain refugees after an outbreak escalated, with more than one-third of those in detention testing positive for coronavirus.

* NSW has seen likely events of transmission in bars and gyms since the state opened up with 332 new local cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Friday.

* The ACT has recorded a further 24 infections, bringing its active caseload to 400 while Canberra retail shops prepare to reopen doors to customers for the first weekend of trade since the territory's lockdown began.

* Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein will reopen its borders from December 15, which is expected to be when the state reaches a vaccination rate of 90 per cent.

* A group of South Australian players who were evicted from an Adelaide nightclub have been referred to Cricket Australia for alleged COVID-19 rule breaches.

* Western Australia and Queensland did not report any new locally-acquired cases overnight, nor did South Australia.

AUSTRALIAN VACCINATION NUMBERS

* There have been 34,044,182 vaccines administered in the national rollout up to midnight on Friday, including 273,861 in the previous 24 hours.

* Of the total, 19,975,577 have been administered by the Commonwealth (an increase of 181,870 in the previous 24 hours).

* 18,878,021 have been issued in primary care (+179,428) and 1,097,556 in aged and disability facilities (+2442).

* 14,068,605 have been administered by the states and territories, including 91,991 in the previous 24 hours.

AUSTRALIAN CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS:

* Australia reported 2104 local cases on Saturday: 1748 in Victoria, 332 in NSW, and 24 in the ACT.

* There were three overseas-acquired infections: two in Victoria and one in NSW.

* The national death toll is 1622: Victoria 1030 (+9), NSW 548 (+2), Tasmania 13, ACT 9, WA 9, Queensland 7 and SA 4. Two Queensland residents who died in NSW have been included in the official tolls of both states.

GLOBAL CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS:

* Cases: at least 243,743,075

* Deaths: at least 4,953,490

* Vaccine doses administered: at least 6,762,406,000

Data current as at 1630 AEDT on October 22, taking in federal and state/territory government updates and Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre figures.

Australian Associated Press