NICK COATSWORTH: Good afternoon everybody. Dr Nick Coatsworth with today’s update oncoronavirus disease in Australia.
To 12 noon today, there have been 9797 total COVID-19 infections diagnosed. There have been regrettably, 108 people who have died from COVID-19, including another death overnight - a gentleman in his 70s.
The number of cases confirmed in the 24 hours to 12 noon is 279, of which 273 are in Victoria. There have been five cases diagnosed in New South Wales - two of those individuals were in hotel quarantine and had acquired their infection overseas, three are local cases who are confirmed who were household contacts of one of the people who contracted COVID-19 in south-west Sydney.