Barwon Health has seen COVID-related hospitalisations drop over the past week as the state government announced the code brown would end next week.
On Thursday the health service was treating 22 COVID patients at University Hospital Geelong, including six in intensive care.
The numbers were a significant drop from seven days earlier, when 37 COVID patients were being treated at the hospital.
There were 2509 active cases in Greater Geelong on Thursday.
On Friday Health Minister Martin Foley said it appeared COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations had plateaued and the code brown would be lifted on Monday.
The code brown was introduced last month for Geelong hospitals, as well as hospitals in Melbourne and other major regional cities, and allowed health services to reconfigure their services to free up resources for their COVID response.
He also announced regional hospitals, including Barwon Health, would be able restart non-urgent elective surgery on Monday.
