Victoria state premier defends tough lockdown of nine housing towers

Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, reported 14 new coronavirus cases yesterday, all returning travellers from overseas.In a separate development, the World Health Organisation reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Saturday, with the total rising by 212,326 in 24 hours.The previous WHO record for new cases was 189,077 on June 28.Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally.

WHO has also updated its account of the early stages of the Covid-19 crisis to say it was alerted by its own office in China, and not by China itself, to the first pneumonia cases in Wuhan. A new chronology of events published this week indicates that it was the WHO office in China that on Dec 31 notified its regional point of contact of a case of"viral pneumonia" after having found a declaration for the media on a Wuhan health commission website on the issue.

The same day, WHO's epidemic information service picked up another news report transmitted by the international epidemiological surveillance network ProMed - based in the US - about the same group of cases of pneumonia from unknown causes in Wuhan. WHO then asked the Chinese authorities on two occasions, on Jan 1 and Jan 2, for information about these cases, which they provided on Jan 3.

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