Australia will soon reach the milestone of vaccinating 95 percent of the population against COVID-19 but there has been a substantial rise in cases since March, with states registering the highest number of daily infections in more than a month.
The country reported nearly 50,000 cases of COVID-19 on March 18, including 29 deaths. More than 20,000 of those cases are in the state of New South Wales, where there were six deaths.
