Australia moved towards its lowest daily surge in coronavirus infections in five weeks on Friday. This happened as the hotspot state of Victoria came close to the midway point of lockdown.
The scenario prompted the prime minister to hail “a week of increased hope.”While the rest of Australia relaxes restrictions, the home state of a quarter of its population is in a six-week lockdown because of a second wave of virus infections.
Victoria registered 179 new cases in the past 24 hours, from 240 a day earlier and down from over 700 a day two weeks ago. The state reported a total of nine deaths.The most populous state of the country, neighboring New South Wales, recorded just one new case.
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