Victoria announced 77 and the ACT had eight. New South Wales recorded a record high 825 new cases for any day across the pandemic.Before I go, here’s a quick recap on a busy and challenging Saturday: I’m about to hand the blog duties back to Ben Smee. About 80 people, including Australian citizens and permit holders, arrived on an Australian air force flight from Kabul.There are 554 people in hospital across Australia with coronavirus – including 94 in intensive care and 36 on ventilators.The Indigenous community in Wilcannia is on edge after 12 new cases were recorded and issues like housing overcrowding are putting people at greater risk.Some 16 cases in NSW have been linked to a party held in Maroubra last weekend.Protests also took place in Sydney and Brisbane. Police made 218 arrests and six officers were hospitalised. More than 4,000 anti-lockdown protesters gathered in Melbourne, where demonstrators clashed with police officers.Melbourne’s lockdown was extended across the entire state from 1pm, with the premier, Dan Andrews, giving regional Victoria less than two hours notice of the restrictions.NSW health authorities said three people had died with coronavirus – a woman in her 80s and two men in their 90s.Queensland and Western Australia both had zero cases. Victoria announced 77 cases and the ACT had eight. There were 894 locally transmitted cases.
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