COVID-19 in VIC, NSW and SA

Victoria has recorded its first COVID-related death in more than a month, after a woman aged in her 70s died from complications related to the disease.

The Department of Health and Human services (DHHS) said the woman was diagnosed with coronavirus in late July and was cleared as an active case in late September.

The last two coronavirus deaths recorded in Victoria were on October 28, but those deaths had occurred some weeks before they were added to COVID-related fatalities.

Prior to that, the last recorded death was that of a man aged in his 90s on October 19.

NSW has recorded its 22nd consecutive day without a locally-acquired case of COVID-19 as it inches closer to the benchmark for virus elimination.

Zero local cases of coronavirus were recorded in NSW in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday from more than 10,200 tests, while four virus cases were uncovered in returned travellers in hotel quarantine.

No COVID-19 patients in NSW are in intensive care.

The benchmark for local elimination of COVID-19 is 28 consecutive days without a locally-acquired case, as has been reached in Victoria.

SA visitors to a number of popular shopping centres in suburban Adelaide are being asked to get tested for COVID-19 immediately, after a man with the virus breached quarantine.

Pop-up testing clinics will be operating at two supermarkets at the centre of the breach from Sunday afternoon.

There are no new cases recorded in the state but chief health officer Nicola Spurrier says she is disappointed with the man’s actions.

“But unfortunately they did not spend the whole time in quarantine and at one point they were out and about on one particular day.”