MICHAEL KIDD:As at 12 noon today, 8462 people have been reported as COVID-19 positive. Sadly, one person lost their life to COVID-19 in Victoria yesterday, and we've just received a report of a second death in Victoria today.
This will bring the number of people in Australia who have lost their lives to COVID-19 to 106. One hundred and forty people have been diagnosed as new cases of COVID-19 in Australia in the last 24 hours.
Ten of these cases have been in New South Wales, and three in Western Australia. All of these cases have been people in hotel quarantine.
There have been 127 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Victoria in the past 24-hours. So far, 53 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed among the 3000 people living in the nine locked.