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A lone passenger sits at a tram stop on a largely empty downtown street on the first day of a lockdown as Victoria state seeks to curb the spread of an outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID -19) in Melbourne, Australia on July 16, 2021. REUTERS / Sandra Sanders
CANBERRA, September 12 (Reuters) – Australia’s second most populous state said on Sunday that daily COVID-19 infections declined slightly.
Victoria state said it recorded 392 COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, down slightly from 450 cases a day earlier.
Victoria state is struggling to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant despite a strict lockdown of its largest city, Melbourne.
Reporting by Colin Packham; Editing by Daniel Wallis
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