Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says authorities are committed to existing timelines for the state to open up.

He said Victoria was still on track, if not ahead of schedule, to meet its October and November vaccination targets.

“At this stage, I’ve got no advice that we’d have to alter anything on the road map; I want to try and give people as much freedom as fast as I can, as [safely] as possible,” Mr Andrews said during today’s coronavirus update.

“But I don’t have any advice that sees us having to alter that [timeline] now.”

The Premier said today’s increase in case numbers was serious. He said illegal household visits contributed to the numbers. The state reported a national record for daily case numbers on Tuesday, with 1763 new cases.

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“We’ve got to get those vaccination numbers, and the protection that comes with that, to the highest level we can, and it’s 70 and 80 [per cent],” Mr Andrews said.

“Then we can open up, it’s only a few weeks away, so we’ve just got to see this through.”

Mr Andrews said “if we didn’t have a lockdown at the moment I wouldn’t be standing up here today reporting these case numbers, you could probably add a zero to it, if not more”.

He said the Chief Health Officer’s update, to be released Tuesday afternoon or evening, would elaborate on how Tuesday’s spike in cases related to modelling by the Burnet Institute.

“It’s based on assumptions, and you have kind of a more optimistic line, and then there’s that range up to a more pessimistic outlook,” Mr Andrews said.