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2.29am BST
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews says of the deaths:
Of those 10 fatalities, 7 are linked to aged-care outbreaks and 3 are not linked to an outbreak. We will provide further details to the extent appropriate later in the day. We, of course, send our condolences and best wishes to those families.
2.28am BST
My colleague Melissa Davies has just confirmed that the 10 deaths overnight in Victoria is on its own a national record – the highest one-day total reported for Australia as a whole since the pandemic began.
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