MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s state Victoria, home to more than a quarter of the country’s population, reported on Saturday a record 1,488 new COVID-19 infections, the highest number for any state since the start of the pandemic last year.
There were also two further deaths. The state has been in a hard lockdown since Aug. 5 as authorities are trying to quell an outbreak of the Delta coronavirus variant.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Sandra Maler)
