Second Victorian tests positive as NSW records 11 cases and Qld three – as it happened

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10.22am BST

That's where we will wrap up the blog for this evening.

Here's what happened today:

10.05am BST

A second person in Melbourne has tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, after a co-worker at a dry cleaners who worked with the man who returned from Sydney also tested positive.

The Sandringham Dry Cleaners was named an exposure site on Thursday, after the Oakleigh man in his 60s who returned to Sydney on Sunday tested positive for Covid-19.