Australia celebrates zero local cases of coronavirus.
Over the weekend, Australia celebrated its first day with no new cases of coronavirus nationally since June 9.
The entire country went 24 hours without a new locally acquired case of COVID-19 between 8pm Friday and 8pm Saturday.
It was the fourth time in the past week Victoria recorded no new cases at all.
Well done Australia. How good! Let’s keep it that way. We’ve seen here, and are seeing again overseas, how quickly this virus spreads, so please stay COVIDSafe. https://t.co/WcL4VytvJL
— Scott Morrison (@ScottMorrisonMP) November 1, 2020
In more good news for Australia, Health Minister Greg Hunt says we're close to securing two more sources for a coronavirus vaccine, which he expects will start rolling out in 2021.