Australia posts lowest one-day rise in COVID-19 cases in more than three weeks

Australia posted its lowest one-day rise in new COVID-19 cases in more than three weeks on Thursday, stoking hopes that a second wave of new infections gripping Victoria state is finally being brought under control.

Australia, once heralded as a global leader in combating COVID-19, has struggled to contain an outbreak in the country’s second most populous state, which has seen triple digit daily new cases for weeks.

But Australian states and territories on Thursday reported just 292 new infections in the past 24 hours, down from 428 detected in the previous day and the lowest since July 20.

“We now believe, cautiously, that we have early signs of the flattening of the curve,” Australia’s Minister for Health Greg Hunt said in a televised media conference.

The bulk of the new infections again came in Victoria, which detected 278 new infections in the past 24 hours, down from 410 a day earlier.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-state/australia-posts-lowest-one-day-rise-in-covid-19-cases-in-more-than-three-weeks-idUSKCN258308

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