30th September, 2021
Agency Report
Victoria state in Australia has topped 1,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time in the pandemic, marking a huge jump from the 950 cases announced a day earlier.
State health authorities said Thursday that 1,438 cases – all locally transmitted – had been recorded the previous day. Five covid-19 deaths were recorded.
The figures bring the current number of active cases to just over 11,000.
Jeroen Weimar, the head of the state’s Covid-19 response, said there were now cases in every Melbourne district and that around one-third of cases were due to gatherings during last week’s three-day weekend.
People “dropped their guard,” he said, adding that the surge may be a “rogue day” but it could be a trend that continues.
More than half of the country’s eligible population has now been fully vaccinated.
Australia has recorded 102,000 cases and around 1,200 deaths since the pandemic began.
dpa