Australia coronavirus live update: 12th death at Sydney's Newmarch House – as it happened

We will wrap up our Australian rolling coverage of Covid-19 developments now. Thank you for your company and correspondence.

The Guardian’s international liveblog continues here:

In summary:

• The global death toll from Covid-19 has surpassed 217,000. There are more than 3.125m confirmed cases worldwide.
• Australia has a total of 6,746 confirmed cases. Ninety people have died across the country from Covid-19.
  
• There was another death at Sydney’s beleaguered Newmarch House aged care home. Twelve people have now died there.
• More than 3 million Australians have downloaded the government’s Covidsafe app.
• The degenerating relationship between Canberra and Beijing deteriorated further, with tit-for-tat bickering, trade threats and a gate-crashed press conference, all emerging out of Australia’s proposal for an independent inquiry into the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak. There is far to run here.

We will return tomorrow as this country, and this world, continues to grapple with the pandemic.

All of you, stay well and stay safe.

Thanks Alby ... this is helpful – 6.67, you say?

From our global liveblog ...

The Press Association has just snapped this:

A spokesman for Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds said: “The prime minister and Ms Symonds are thrilled to announce the birth of a healthy baby boy at a London hospital earlier this morning. Both mother and baby are doing very well.

The PM and Ms Symonds would like to thank the fantastic NHS maternity team.

Some further details on South Australia’s suppression of Covid-19.

There have been no new cases reported in the state again today, the seventh day in a row of zero new cases.

A total of 438 cases have been reported across South Australia, 420 of which have been cleared and those people recovered.

Fourteen cases remain active in the state. Four people have died from Covid-19.

A 68-year-old man is currently in a stable condition in intensive care at the Royal Adelaide hospital. SA Pathology has undertaken more than 55,000 tests for Covid-19 so far.

The degeneration of Australia-China relations over Australia’s proposal for an independent, international investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak continued apace today. Helen Davidson has this excellent tick-tock marking this week’s developments in the deterioration.

We reported earlier the remarkable press conference held by federal health minister Greg Hunt feat. China’s consul general for Victoria, Zhou Long, who was invited to speak at the conference by Andrew Forrest.

Notable in this piece, the prominent role played by the Global Times in prosecuting the Chinese government’s position. Neither novel nor unusual, but particularly pronounced in this episode.

This week saw a dramatic slowing in the number of new Covid-19 cases across the Pacific islands with 259 reported, up from 239 last week.

But in the Indonesia province of Papua, official figures may belie a much grimmer picture. The official tally of 155 infections in the province is likely to be low, given the state of health care, and the systemic distrust between the indigenous population and the state. One batch of 300 tests administered to government officials in Mimika returned 110 positive results.

This is an excellent summation of the Covid-19 situation across the Pacific from Dan McGarry and Tess Newton Cain.

The people’s poet, First Dog on the Moon, answers the critical questions... who indeed?

That’s all from me today. I will leave you with my colleague Ben Doherty. Stay well.

Kristina Keneally, Labor’s home affairs spokeswoman, has responded to Peter Dutton attacks.

The Greens have released a statement on the call for an international inquiry into the cause of Covid-19.

“If the Australian government wants to really lead from the front on this issue it will call for an end to the global trade of wildlife, not just an investigation into wildlife markets,” said Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

There cannot just be an investigation of wildlife markets in China or other countries like Indonesia as the prime minister seemed to be suggesting today.

Ultimately the trade of wildlife for consumption and other purposes, which is a global issue including in Australia, must end.

A push to end wildlife markets is welcome but it must be accompanied by a push to end the trade of wild animals, otherwise very little will have been achieved in the battle to prevent future pandemics like Covid-19.

The prime minister also needs to commit to looking at wildlife trade in his own backyard. The federal government needs to close the loopholes in our laws that allow our rare and endangered native animals to be traded for profit and ensure they are protected here where they belong.

Trevor Watts, the state MP Toowoomba North, was fined more than $1,300 for attending this get-together at the weekend.

Some good news in South Australia.