Registering a milestone in the fight against coronavirus, Australia recorded zero locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 on
Saturday for the first time since June.

It prompted ‘National Donut Day’ online.

Social media users across Australia
hailed the zero infection day as “National donut day” declaring it as an
unofficial and people’s proclaimed festivity, by enjoying sweet donuts that come in circular shape, analogous to zero mark.

The landmark comes in the heels
of a second-wave of virus outbreak in the state of Victoria that witnessed
stringent lockdown and overnight curfew in Melbourne.

Australian Health Minister,
Greg Hunt on being learned about nil cases in the community for 24 hours from
the National Incident Centre, took to twitter to share the good news and
thanked all the health workers and citizens for the cooperation.

“Thankyou to all of our
amazing health & public health workers & above all else the Australian
people,” Hunt tweeted Sunday.

Australia now has less
than 200 active cases of coronavirus, a small number of cases however were recorded
in border quarantine facilities

Stay-at-home orders have been
lifted in Melbourne, with restaurants, bars and shops reopening

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With conditions showing
chances of improvements, authorities have shifted their focus in reuniting
families split by virus measures, pledging to reopen internal borders and bring
home thousands of stranded citizens from abroad before Christmas.

So far, Australia has recorded
over 27,500 cases and 907 deaths since the disease outbreak, early this year.