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Victoria reports 17 deaths, Queensland reports two cases; Mexico nears 60,000 deaths; Italy records worst infections since lockdown. Follow the latest

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1.24am BST

Queensland’s premier Annastacia Palaszczuk warned on Sunday morning the state was “not out of the woods yet” despite reporting only two new cases of Covid-19 linked to an outbreak at a youth detention centre.

Both cases - a woman in her 30s and an infant boy - were from the same family as a known case and had been already quarantining at their home west of Brisbane.
On Saturday morning, the state introduced new rules restricting the numbers of people who could gather in homes and outside to 10 people, but businesses and organisations with covid plans in place could continue to operate as they had been.

Palaszczuk said there were now nine cases in the cluster linked to the detention centre outbreak. The state had 16 active cases. Among 6,875 tests carried out in the previous 24 hours, 202 detention centre staff and 11 inmates had returned negative tests, with a further 20 results from inmates still to be returned.

Chief health officer Jeanette Young said the results of testing so far were good, because they showed the current cluster had not expanded. “But it’s too early for us to relax,” she said.

She said police had been out across the state tracking young people who had been discharged from the detention centre since 22 July.

Because staff and inmates had been previously unaware they were at risk of carrying the disease, people had been moving around different suburbs and locations.
She added: “This is why this cluster is a risk to us. We need to do a lot more testing.”

1.22am BST

Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus deaths have now passed 60,000, Reuters has reported.

Mexico’s health ministry on Saturday reported 6,482 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 644 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 556,216 cases and 60,254 deaths. The government has said the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases

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