Australia's Victoria reports lowest rise in COVID-19 cases in nearly two months


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  • Thursday, 27 Aug 2020

FILE PHOTO: Medical personnel disposes medical waste outside the Kalyna Aged Care facility amid the second wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Melbourne, Australia August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second-most populous state of Victoria on Thursday reported 23 deaths from the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours and 113 new cases, its lowest daily rise in nearly two months.

The southeastern state, which has become the country's virus hotspot, a day earlier reported its second-most deadly day of the pandemic with 24 deaths and logged 149 cases.

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