Australia recorded the lowest number of daily Coronavirus cases in weeks on Sunday, reporting 1,220 new locally-acquired infections.

There have been more than 65,000 new cases reported in October, the most in any month since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020 and more than twice as many as all of last year, reports Xinhua news agency. With the new cases, Australia’s overall infection tally stood at 170,564, with a total of 1,735 deaths. More than 400 deaths were also reported in October.