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AUSTRALIA REPORTED ZERO new locally transmitted coronavirus cases today, the country’s health minister announced, sparking celebrations online of the first “national donut” since June.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said he received advice from the National Incident Centre that no cases were detected in the community in the 24 hours to 8pm Saturday.
The country last reached the milestone nearly five months ago on 9 June, before a second-wave outbreak in Victoria state saw a strict lockdown and overnight curfew imposed on Melbourne’s five million residents.
“Thank you to all of our amazing health & public health workers & above all else the Australian people,” Hunt tweeted Sunday.
Social media users dubbed it a “national donut”, riffing on recent celebrations in Victoria when zero new daily cases were confirmed there and locals proclaimed it “Donut Day”.
A small number of cases were recorded in border quarantine facilities housing travellers returning from overseas.
There are now less than 200 active cases of coronavirus across Australia, which has recorded just over 27,500 cases and 907 deaths since the pandemic began.
Australia stands in stark contrast to the United States and Europe, where tens of thousands of infections are being recorded each day.
Stay-at-home orders have been lifted in Melbourne, with restaurants, bars and shops reopening just as new national lockdowns are announced in France, Germany and England.
Authorities have now turned their focus to reuniting families split by virus measures, pledging to reopen internal borders and bring home thousands of stranded citizens from abroad before Christmas.
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That’s so sad. RIP.
I know that that lady and her husband have spent every waking moment of the last 16 years trying to find their baby boy. It’s a compounded grief now that she is going to her grave not knowing what happened to her beloved son. And somebody out there knows something. Completely devoid of any humanity to allow that to happen.
I don’t know about an afterlife but at times like this I truly hope that there is one and that Nancy is reunited with her baby boy again, forever. RIP x
There is nothing. Nothing. Worse in life than this. Rip dear lady.
That’s very sad, losing a child is the worst nightmare a parent can experience in life.
So so sad, RIP
So terribly sad. I’m sure he was waiting to meet her…..
God love that poor family, they have been through hell. It breaks my heart that lady never found out where her son is. My condolences to her family.
And the terrible thing is someone knows… someone is hiding a terrible secret.. poor lady. Heart goes out to her
That’s is so sad .heart goes out to the family
I hope and believe she is reunited with her darling son tonight.. May God help her family who are grieving tonight for their mam and for Gussie too for all these years.
A lovely lady – rest in peace Nancy. I hope Bob and his family can get some closure in this sad case, somebody out there knows! Please come forward and bring an end to the heartache….
God rest her.i hope herself and gussie are together now.
All our thoughts are with the family , she sounds like one in a million
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