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Deputy Chief Medical Officer press conference about COVID-19 on 16 July 2020
PROFESSOR MICHAEL KIDD:Here is the national update as of 12 noon: 10,810 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Australia. This is in the context of the global pandemic where 13.5 million people have been reported as COVID-19 positive, with over 580,000 deaths all around the world; 330 people have been diagnosed as new cases of COVID-19 in Australia in the past 24 hours; 317 of these cases have been in Victoria, and as we've heard from Premier Dan Andrews, this is the highest daily number of cases reported in the state.There have been 10 new cases reported in New South Wales, 4 overseas acquired among people in hotel quarantine, and 6 locally acquired.