Victoria records no new locally acquired cases, one in quarantine
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Victoria has recorded no new local coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, and one in hotel quarantine, as case numbers continued to rise in NSW and Queensland.
There were 16 new cases in NSW - 13 of which were already in isolation and three of which were in an aged care home - and two in Queensland, one of them from community transmission.
Victoria received 20,441 test results and administered 15,151 vaccine doses in the past day. In total, there are 23 active cases still in Victoria.
Several COVID-19 vaccines are currently either in development or already rolling out across the world. When and how they will reach rural and remote communities is a question that needs to be answered.
Australia has secured 10 million doses of the 90+ percent effective Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine - enough for five million people.
The University of Queensland s Associate Professor Paul Griffin told NITV News while this vaccine is really impressive , it comes with a significant downside. Storage and transportation at temperatures of minus 70 degrees celsius are needed for the vaccine to be effective. If they re not kept at really cold temperatures, they can essentially degrade and, and not work so well, said Associate Professor Griffin. Obviously, this is going to pose some logistical challenges to rolling it out, particularly to more remote areas.