Coronavirus updates LIVE: Australians download COVIDSafe app more than 4.5 million times, global COVID-19 cases climb past 3.5 million as nation's death toll stands at 96
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Summary
- The global death toll from coronavirus has passed 246,000. There have been 3.5 million cases but 1.1 million recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. The Australian death toll stands at 96 after another death at Newmarch House in Sydney's west
- On Monday New Zealand reported no new cases for the first time since the mid-March outbreak
- Victoria has seen a spike in coronavirus cases, with another 22 people diagnosed yesterday; 19 of those are connected to the Melbourne meatworks cluster
- Two primary schools in Sydney and Melbourne are closed today after confirmed cases were present in classrooms. NSW schools will begin a staggered return to face-to-face learning next week
- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said there is "enormous evidence" that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Australian intelligence officials have been unable to find evidence to support the controversial theory, and the official position of US intelligence is that the virus began in a wet market
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