Transcript of Professor Paul Kelly's doorstop about COVID-19 PROFESSOR PAUL KELLY: Thank you for your attention again for the daily situation in relation to COVID-19 here in Australia.
We have had now 6,929 cases as a few minutes ago. And still, 97 deaths, so very unfortunate but remaining a very flat curve.
Only 16 new cases in the last 24 hours. And four of those were related to the Cedar Meats cluster in western Melbourne. We are continuing doing a lot of testing, just under 800,000 tests and 38,000 tests yesterday with a very low positivity rate, under one per cent now.
In terms of where those around 900 people who are sick in Australia now with COVID-19 are currently situated, 51 are in hospital, 19 in intensive care and 15 are