COVID updates: TGA vaccine safety group to meet tomorrow to discuss Melbourne blood clot case, Acting CMO says — as it happened

Professor Kidd applauds Queensland’s work and gives us a global update

There were more than 685,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours around the world.

More than 11,700 lives have been lost in the past 24 hours to COVID-19.

That brings the global death toll to over 2.8 million people.

But, in Australia, there were almost 75,000 COVID-19 tests carried out in Australia.

“A huge thanks to everybody who has come forward for testing over the recent days and especially to people in Queensland and in the north of New South Wales.

“Australians know how to respond when we have a crisis like this.

“As a consequence, as Acting Chief Medical Officer, I have removed the Commonwealth hot spot definition for the Greater Brisbane area as of…