Published 13:46 IST, June 10th 2020
Australia reports no new local cases for first time since pandemic began
Conquering a major milestone in the fight against coronavirus outbreak, Australia has said that it has not detected any locally transmitted cases of COVID-19.
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Conquering a major milestone in fight against unprecedented outbreak of coronavirus, Australia has said that it has t detected any locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. For first time since pandemic entered country, every state and territory in Australia reported back that re has t been a single local resident to have contracted fatal vel coronavirus. However, medical professionals detected at least two COVID-19 positive cases among travellers who are currently in hotel quarantine in New South Wales.
Moreover, according to reports, only seven cases of community transmissions have been reported from Australia in past week. Out of which, at least six were in Victoria and one was in Queensland. Since re have been minimal cases of locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, us of Australian government’s ‘Covid Safe App’ has also significantly decreased.
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6,720 have recovered in Australia
According to coronavirus tally by Australian government, y have w recorded total 7,267 cases with 102 deaths. Moreover, at least 6,720 have recovered from cOVID-19 disease. re are 19 COVID-19 positive individuals in hospital and two are in intensive care units.
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Australian government’s health department has published a table showing all states with total case y have reported and deaths that have been recorded. island country has till w conducted over 1.6 million COVID0-19 tests and in last 24 hours, state has reported a positive case of coronavirus except NSW, and that too among foreigners.
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Australia seems to have contained drastic spre of COVID-19 disease while cases are still spiking in or parts of world. According to Johns Hopkins University tally, re are over 7.2 million cases of COVID-19 and at least 411,291 people have died. United States still remains worst virus-hit country in world with nearly two million coronavirus cases and 112,006 deaths. Latin America giant, Brazil follows US in line with 739,503 COVID-19 cases.
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(Im Source: AP)
13:46 IST, June 10th 2020