MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s Victoria state reported 12 locally acquired cases of coronavirus on Saturday, down from 14 a day earlier, in a promising sign as the state weighs whether to lift a hard lockdown imposed to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant.
All of the cases were linked to current outbreaks and 10 of the 12 were in quarantine throughout their entire infectious period, the state’s health department said.
(Reporting by Sonali Paul; editing by Grant McCool)
