Second Black Lives Matter protester gets coronavirus in Victoria

Melbourne: A second person who attended Melbourne’s Black Lives Matter protest has tested positive for COVID-19, among 12 new cases confirmed in Victoria, Australia.

The new cases bring the total number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Victoria to 1732. Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the Black Lives Matter protester was a young woman who attended the demonstration in Melbourne on June 6, but was “very unlikely” to have acquired the virus there.