NICK COATSWORTH: Good afternoon, everybody. Dr Nick Coatsworth with today's update on COVID-19 in Australia.
To date we've diagnosed 12,097 people with coronavirus, and as of 12 noon today, 296 new cases in the past 24 hours. There has regrettably been one additional death, taking the national death toll to 123 from COVID-19.
There are 156 people currently hospitalised with coronavirus disease, 33 of whom are in intensive care units. The vigorous contact tracing going on at the moment across Victoria and New South Wales, assisted by contact tracers at the Commonwealth and in many states and territories working remotely to help support our colleagues in Victoria is being backed up by a remarkable testing framework.