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The road to recovery for Victoria?

Aug 28 2020 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Above is Thursday’s graph for Victoria. They had 117 new cases on Wednesday and 113 on Thursday. The trend is slowly down.

For aged care deaths, the number of residents and staff with infections across 120 locations is still high; see the Top 10 below.

Sadly the 500^{th COVID-19 related death} is likely this weekend.

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