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As It Happened: COVID-Safe tracing app goes live; two states to begin easing lockdown restrictions

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Summary

  • A man in his 90s has become Victoria's seventeenth death from coronavirus.
  • Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said Australian Border Force was planning to bolster biosecurity measures at airports when travel recommences
  • The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has almost reached 2.9 million, while death numbers have passed 200,000.
  • The UK has become the fifth country (after the US, Italy, Spain and France) to pass 20,000 coronavirus deaths. 
  • Three new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Victoria on Sunday, bringing the state's total number since the start of the outbreak to 1349.
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