Coronavirus live news: Brazil investigates reinfection; Australia pins hopes on Oxford vaccine

UK coronavirus hospitalisations increase; indoor dining restrictions reinstated in New York; WHO warns number of deaths surging

After Victoria recorded its first cases of Covid-19 in its new hotel quarantine system, the state’s chief medical officer Brett Sutton has assured the state’s residents the results were “expected”.

“All arrivals are tested if they show symptoms, as well as at Day 3 and Day 11 of their 14-day quarantine he said in a statement.

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In Australia, hopes for a Covid-19 vaccine are increasingly being pinned on the British-developed AstraZeneca-Oxford University candidate, after the Australian-led Covid-19 vaccine in development by the University of Queensland and pharmaceutical company CSL was abandoned after some participants in early trials returned false-positive HIV tests.

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