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Coronavirus updates LIVE: National death toll hits 90; Yarraville childcare centre closes; Sunshine hospital workers sent home

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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 90 after the deaths of 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. The global death toll has passed 211,000.
  • Ten million coronavirus tests will be available to Australians under a partnership with the federal government and billionaire Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest's Minderoo Foundation.
  • New phase of Australian epidemic to learn how to best relax social distancing measures, deputy chief health officer says.
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