Acting Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has given an update on active coronavirus cases and testing numbers and also warned people in south-western Sydney to follow restrictions this weekend.
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Let’s get into the numbers first
Mr Kelly said there were “438 newly confirmed cases in the last 24 hours”.
This brings Australia’s overall total to 11,000 COVID-19 cases since infections started last year.
Only 10 of the new 438 aren’t in Victoria.
Eight are in New South Wales and 2 are in Western Australia.
“In WA, these are cases in quarantine from overseas travel,” Mr Kelly said.
There were also three deaths reported overnight, all people over the age of 70, he said.
That brings Australia’s total death toll to 116.
Mr Kelly said it “brings t