By Nic White For Daily Mail AustraliaPublished: 17:51 EDT, 4 October 2021 | Updated: 17:59 EDT, 4 October 2021Victoria has recorded by far the most new Covid cases in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic. The Delta outbreak surged by 1,763 infections on Tuesday - 164 more than the worst day of the NSW lockdown on September 10. Melbourne has been locked down longer than any city on Earth through the whole pandemic and will not taste freedom until October 26. Tuesday's infection tally smashed the state's previous record of 1,476 on Friday and was almost double the worst day of its deadly second wave last year. However, today will likely not be the worst day of the pandemic for Australia overall as NSW is expected to only have cases in the 600s, as it did on Monday.

Source: The Nation October 04, 2021 21:56 UTC