Italy says decision to block 250,000 doses of Covid vaccine from Australia was 'not a hostile act'

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Italian officials say the decision to block a shipment of 250,000 doses of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine destined for Australia was not a hostile act".

The comments came as Victoria recorded another day of zero local transmission of Covid-19 and one new case in a returned traveller in hotel quarantine on Saturday. New South Wales and Queensland also recorded zero cases of community transmission and there were three new cases in hotel quarantine in each of those states.