Residents of Victoria's coastal areas are urging visitors ignoring coronavirus restrictions to stay away as the virus takes another Victorian's life and the number of cases continues to grow.

Key points: Up to 400 passengers arrived from Santiago, New Zealand, China, Doha and Canada today and were taken to hotels for self-isolation

Up to 400 passengers arrived from Santiago, New Zealand, China, Doha and Canada today and were taken to hotels for self-isolation Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said 39,000 tests had been carried out in Victoria but the Australian Medical Association has called for that to ramp up

Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said 39,000 tests had been carried out in Victoria but the Australian Medical Association has called for that to ramp up The Health Department has created a dedicated website for healthcare workers to come out of retirement and help with the COVID-19 response

The state's COVID-19 death toll rose to four on Sunday after a man in his 80s died at a Melbourne hospital.

The total coronavirus infections around the state increased by 84 to 769.

But even as most Victorians bunker down in their homes to avoid spreading the virus further, reports are coming in of people heading to traditional holiday destinations.

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Simon Illingworth, a councillor for Corangamite Shire which takes in Great Ocean Road destinations like Port Campbell, said sightseers and surfers — including some international tourists — were still filling carparks near the area's beaches and landmarks.

"We just don't want them here, to be honest," Cr Illingworth told the ABC.

"The locals are furious.

"Everyone's doing the right thing, locking themselves away, and it's being undermined by these transient tourists going from town to town doing nothing if not spreading the disease."

He said 90 per cent of Victoria's coronavirus cases were people who had travelled overseas or had been in contact with someone who had been overseas.

"So this is the highest-risk group and they're waltzing around our area," he said.

Cr Illingworth said one business owner in Princetown had laid off 40 workers due to coronavirus restrictions.

"People are getting really bloody angry," he said

"These people don't even know how they're going to pay their rent or feed themselves and these bastards are driving past in their Bongo vans.

"Honestly, it shouldn't have even come to this.

"People here should have been able to walk on the beach with a good 500 metres between them, but we've got all these tourists coming down, filling the beaches and carparks as if there is no virus."

Still no charges laid or fines issued

A Victoria Police statement issued on Sunday afternoon said officers had conducted 1,430 checks of homes, businesses, populous places and non-essential services across the state during the 24 hours to 8:00am on Sunday as part of Operation Sentinel.

They included 139 checks on returning travellers to ensure they were in self-isolation. Eleven of them were not home.

No-one had been charged or fined yet.

The statement said there were a range of legitimate reasons why someone may not have been home, including that they may have been seeking out medical care or supplies, or staying with someone else also in self-quarantine.

"If someone is not home when police attend, we will continue to investigate why they are not at their residential address and locate them as soon as possible," they said.

Overall, police have conducted 3,867 checks since March 21.

Coronavirus cases continuing to rise

At a press conference on Sunday morning, Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said 611 coronavirus cases had been confirmed in metropolitan Melbourne, while 139 were in regional areas.

"We now have 193 people who have recovered, there are 21 confirmed cases of community transmission which remains unchanged, there are 26 people in hospital including four patients in intensive care," Ms Mikakos said.

The total number of cases includes 419 men and 346 women aged from three to 88.



Elsewhere in the country, a 75-year-old woman who was a passenger on board the Ruby Princess cruise ship has become the second person to die from the virus in Queensland, taking the national death toll to 16.

The Victorian COVID-19 hotline is 1800 675 398. Further information is also available at the Health Department's COVID-19 webpage.

International arrivals confined to Crown hotel

At the press conference, Victorian Tourism Minister Martin Pakula said six international flights landed in Melbourne on Sunday morning and another was due to arrive later in the day.

Up to 400 passengers were met by health officials for a medical check. They then boarded buses and were taken to hotels in Melbourne's CBD, including the Crown Promenade.

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Mr Pakula said the flights had arrived from Santiago, New Zealand, China, Doha and Canada.

"We have secured 5,000 hotel rooms for the purposes of this quarantine arrangement," he said.

Mr Pakula said there were security guards monitoring hotel rooms.

Recently arrived overseas travellers arrive at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne. ( AAP: Scott Barbour )

People crowding on beaches called out as 'stupid behaviour'

Ms Mikakos called out the "stupid behaviour" of people who had been crowded beaches and foreshores along Victoria's coastline.

"The only way these rules are effective is if everyone is complying with them," she said.

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"It's not a big sacrifice to make to skip going to the beach today. People need to do some physical exercise; go for a walk, but try to make that as quick as possible and go home."

Ms Mikakos acknowledged concerns from private hospitals that feared they would have to lay-off staff unless the government replaced the lost revenue from banning non-urgent elective surgery.

She said the State Government had been having "constructive discussions with the private hospital sector" and would "utilise their capacity" as part of its COVID-19 response.

"We have also employed 200 nurses from the Epworth and Cabrini hospitals who are engaging in contact tracing," she said.

Doctors 'waiting too long' for tests

Ms Mikakos said 39,000 tests had been carried out in Victoria but the Australian Medical Association has called for that to ramp up.

The president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Medical Association, Julian Rait, said doctors were "waiting too long to receive test results".

"There's also a concern not enough tests are being done," he said.

Victorian AMA President Julian Rait said he wanted the Government to help increase testing capacity at medical clinics and hospitals. ( ABC News: Haidarr Jones )

"We think there needs to be an escalation of the tests given Victoria has 80 per cent of the population of NSW," he said.

As of Saturday, NSW had carried out 86,524 tests.

Ms Mikakos said NSW had to carry out more testing early on because the state had more positive cases than Victoria.

"The testing reflects the clinical need. If the criteria needs to be widened or changed that will be implemented," she said.

Website set up for healthcare workers to come out of retirement

Last week, the State Government called on retired health care workers to come back to work to help with the coronavirus response.

More than 100 people had expressed interest in returning to work, including retired ambulance staff.

Ms Mikakos said the health department had created a dedicated website for retired workers to fill out a questionnaire so they could be matched with an appropriate position.

"The ANMF [Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation] is providing refresher training courses this week for retired nurses to come back and work in the health system," Ms Mikakos said.