Victoria has recorded no new coronavirus cases for the 27th consecutive day, as the Victorian government gets ready to welcome international flights and resume hotel quarantine within the next fortnight.

The government is expected to announce the resumption of international flights to Victoria within the next fortnight on Thursday morning, along with a revamped hotel quarantine program to house the returned travellers.

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Passenger flights have not touched down in Melbourne since Valentine’s Day, when the Holiday Inn cluster grew to almost 25 cases and prompted a snap five-day lockdown.

Victoria has now recorded almost four weeks without a local COVID-19 infection. The state has been free of active coronavirus cases since Tuesday.

On Wednesday, 15,446 tests were processed and there were 5471 vaccination doses administered at all hospital hubs across the state. There have been 69,592 jabs given in the first four weeks of the vaccine program.

The government on Thursday is also expected to release details into a review of the breaches that led to the February lockdown.

Flights will once again arrive into the city within the next fortnight, multiple government sources speaking on the condition of anonymity said.

It follows reviews into ventilation at the state’s quarantine hotels and the risk of new, more infectious strains of coronavirus being completed.