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Coronavirus live news: India nears 3m cases as Australian state of Queensland to announce two new cases

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The Australian state of Victoria has recorded 208 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, and 17 deaths, health authorities have confirmed. More detail on the cases and deaths will be provided in a press conference later today.

Health authorities in the Australian state of Queensland have confirmed two new cases of coronavirus on Sunday morning.

A woman in her 30s and an infant, both from the same family in the West Moreton area near Ipswich, had returned positive tests for the disease. The state now has 16 active cases.

The state is managing an outbreak of the virus that emerged from the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre at Wacol, west of Brisbane.

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