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Deputy Chief Medical Officer press conference about COVID-19 on 14 May 2020

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Read the transcript of the press conference given by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Coatsworth about coronavirus (COVID-19) on 14 May 2020. NICK COATSWORTH: ...

Tell you that today, 6989 Australians have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Sadly, 98 Australians have lost their lives to COVID-19 infections.

There have been 14 new cases in the past 24 hours, and to date, we've had 943,000 tests, which in the past 24 hours alone represent an additional 34,000 tests for COVID-19.

At this point in time, there's 51 Australians in hospital with coronavirus disease, 18 of those are in our intensive care units, and 13 are on ventilators.

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