For the first time in nearly five months, Australia went a day without recording a confirmed domestic case of coronavirus.

Health Minister Greg Hunt said Saturday marked the first day without any confirmed “community transmission” cases since June 9, hailing the feat as “an enormous national effort.”

“Thank you to all of our amazing health & public health workers & above all else the Australian people,” Hunt wrote on Twitter.

Since the start of the pandemic, Australia has experienced more than 27,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 907 deaths.

More than 90% of those deaths occurred in the state of Victoria, which has now gone two consecutive days without a new confirmed case or fatality.

There have been more than 40 million confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, and more than 1.1 million deaths. To combat the spread of the virus, Australia instituted safety guidelines that included emphasizing social distancing and introducing testing and tracing protocols.

Numerous lockdown measures were lifted last week in Victoria for the first time in 111 days. With the decline in cases, certain restrictions could continue to be reduced.

“What allowances come ... will absolutely be informed by what this week looks like,” Brett Sutton, Victoria’s chief health officer, said Sunday.

India, meanwhile, reported 46,964 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, continuing a downward trend in infections. There were 470 deaths, the Health Ministry said Sunday. The country’s death total grew to 122,111.

The total virus tally is nearly 8.2 million, behind only the U.S.

With News Wire Services