Coronavirus updates LIVE: National death toll hits 89 after Victorian death; Sunshine hospital workers sent home; Queensland vaccine tests show promise

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Coronavirus updates LIVE: National death toll hits 90; Sunshine hospital workers sent home; Queensland vaccine tests show promise

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Summary

  • Another Victorian has died from coronavirus - a woman in her 80s - taking the state's death toll to 18.
  • Australia's death toll now stands at 89 after the deaths of four more residents at the Newmarch House nursing home in western Sydney.
  • US cases have topped 1 million, making up one-third of all infections in the world.
  • University of Queensland researchers say early tests of a potential vaccine have shown promising results.
  • The global death toll from coronavirus has passed 211,000. There are more than 3 million known cases of infection but more than 896,000 people have recovered, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
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