Victoria reports four new cases as cluster grows to nine – as it happened

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And that is where we will leave things for this evening. Here is what happened today:

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Via AAP:

The Defence department has admitted breaching its duty of care to a young soldier fatally shot in the head during a live-fire exercise, saying it was a terrible and avoidable tragedy.

Victorian soldier Private Jason Challis, 25, died after he was shot in 2017 at the ADF's Mount Bundey training area, about 120km south-east of Darwin.