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A lone passenger wearing a protective mask walks from a deserted train platform in Flinders Street during the morning commute hours 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, July 16, 2021. REUTERS / Sandra Sanders
SYDNEY, Aug. 9 (Reuters) – The Australian state of Victoria on Monday reported 11 locally acquired COVID-19 cases, the same number as the day before, as nearly seven million people in the state suffer an instant lockdown week, its sixth since the pandemic began.
All of the new infections are linked, but only one has been in quarantine throughout its infectious period, the state’s health department said.
Victoria went into lockdown last Thursday to eradicate an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant. Read more
Report by Renju José; Editing by Daniel Wallis
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