National cabinet commits to Covid-19 suppression strategy to secure zero community transmissions

The commonwealth and local governments will cooperate to share the latest data on contract tracing and tracking

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National cabinet has agreed to share more data on Covid-19 testing response times and committed to a suppression strategy with the goal of zero community transmissions.

After the meeting on Friday, Scott Morrison told reporters there was some better news" with just 300 new cases in Victoria but held out New South Wales, which recorded seven new cases, as the exemplar of dealing with outbreaks.