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FILE PHOTO: A lone man wearing a protective face mask sits at an unusually quiet State Library as the state of Victoria looks to curb the spread of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Melbourne, Australia, July 16, 2021. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders - 

Australia's second most populous state Victoria reported 61 new locally acquired coronavirus cases in the 24-hour period to Friday (Aug 20) evening, health officials said on Saturday.

There were an additional 16 local cases that were recorded on a rapid testing platform and will be reported in Sunday's numbers, officials said.

Melbourne, home to five million people, entered into its sixth lockdown since on Aug 5, just weeks after exiting the last one, to quell an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant//CNA