While we're doing the rounds, one new case of COVID-19 has been reported in the Top End in the last 24 hours.

The case is in a returned traveller who arrived from New Delhi.

The 30-year-old woman landed in Darwin a fortnight ago, and tested positive in the last 72 hours of her 14-day quarantine.

So far, 29 repatriated Australians have returned positive tests after arriving in the Northern Territory.

Western Australia also reported no new cases of COVID-19 overnight.

There are currently 12 active cases in the state, all of which are returned travellers in hotel quarantine.

WA's total case tally stands at 832.

Evin Priest, NCA NewsWire

Cheap summer getaways are up for grabs for Victorians with the state government handing out a limited number of travel vouchers from tomorrow morning.

At 10am on Friday, the Victorian government will give the tourism industry a $28 million boost by opening registration for the first round of $200 travel vouchers that can be used for vacations within the state.

The vouchers are designed to be spent largely on accomodation to boost the ailing industry.

Picture: Ian Currie

"This year more than ever, Victorians deserve a holiday – these vouchers will make that cheaper and easier for families to get out and support their state," Victorian Tourism Minister Martin Pakula said.

"A bit more money in people's pockets means they can see more and do more in regional Victoria – helping local businesses and the people and communities they support to bounce back."

Read the full story here.

By NCA Newswire's Caroline Schelle

A Victorian hotelier’s bid to overturn the state’s strict lockdown laws failed because there’s no freestanding guarantee to freedom of movement, according to the country’s highest court.

Mornington Peninsula hotel owner Julian Gerner wanted the High Court to declare Victoria’s strict lockdown – which lifted in October – invalid

His lawyer Bret Walker SC argued in November the strict lockdown violated Australians’ constitutional right to a “free and confident society”.

Read the full story here.

No new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in South Australia, extending a run of 12 days with no new cases emerging.

SA Health said there are now only five people in quarantine, down from almost 5000 three weeks ago when authorities feared a major outbreak.

Metalheads will be disappointed by the new Queensland dancing rules, with Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young stating that mosh pits are to be avoided.

Dance floors are set to reopen across the Sunshine State on Monday.

"This is about Queenslanders being sensible," she said. "Dance with other people as you would normally, but not those mosh pits where you have a hundred people squashed up together.

"If you are dancing with someone you met that night that is fine, just be sensible about it, and stay with that person, with your friendship group, with your family, stay in those groups, do not spread out."

That's from 14,508 tests reported to 8pm last night.

However, NSW Health has urged more people to come forward for testing.

“While numbers have increased since the weekend, there are still too few people coming forward for testing. With restrictions eased and borders having reopened, now is not the time to be complacent. Please come forward for testing immediately even with mild symptoms,’’ the latest update says.

Four cases were reported in overseas travellers.

NSW recorded no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.

Four cases were reported in overseas travellers. Two previously reported cases, one locally acquired and one acquired overseas, have been excluded following further investigations. pic.twitter.com/oTb1sXitzJ

— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) December 10, 2020

The United states has just recorded more than 3000 daily deaths due to COVID-19.

That's more than the number of people who died in 9/11.

Here are some of the reactions on Twitter.

US tallies more than 3,000 deaths in a single day. And we still haven't hit the expected Thanksgiving wave of deaths. It's going to be a rough winter.

— Markian Hawryluk (@MarkianHawryluk) December 10, 2020

For the first time ever, the US reports more than 3,000 Covid-19 deaths in a single day.

More people died today in the US than on 9/11.https://t.co/elPhf9q1Cv pic.twitter.com/nvpYSu5tDD

— Cameron Peters (@jcameronpeters) December 10, 2020

Daily deaths from Covid in America now exceed all other 24-hour mass death events in US history, barring the worst day of the Civil War (1862 Antietam) and the Galveston Hurricane (1900).

— Matt Nippert (@MattNippert) December 10, 2020

BREAKING—United States recorded more than 3,000 #COVID19 deaths in a single day, a pandemic record.

➡️US also now topped 296k confirmed deaths—more deaths than all US military combat deaths during WWII fighting in Germany, France, Italy, North Africa, and the Pacific—combined. pic.twitter.com/vzWFvYZ3Ph

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 10, 2020

There are now 22 active cases in the state. No new local cases were picked up.

Thursday, 10 December – coronavirus cases in Queensland:

• 0 locally acquired cases, 3 new cases acquired overseas
• 22 active cases
• 1,225 total confirmed cases
• 1,385,677 tests

Sadly, six Queenslanders with COVID-19 have died. 1,196 patients have recovered.#covid19 pic.twitter.com/xOK0IfEiDP

— Annastacia Palaszczuk (@AnnastaciaMP) December 9, 2020

Medical experts have written to federal and state health authorities, calling on them to introduce rapid and daily testing in quarantine facilities to get stranded Australians safely home for Christmas and keep quarantine workers safe from infection.

Signed by some of the nation's leading infectious disease experts, it called for them to "urgently assess and adopt a broader range of COVID-19 testing".

"This could not only facilitate a reduction in the mandatory 14-day quarantine period for returning Australians, but also be far more effective in preventing workers in the quarantine facilities from transmitting the virus to their families – and thus the broader community," it reads.