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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have welcomed their second child.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's daughter, Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on Friday, a spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan revealed on Sunday.

Their daughter was born at 11.40am (4.40am on Saturday AEST) at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital California, weighing in at 7lbs, 11oz (3.5kg).

She is a little sister to the couple's son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor, who turned two on May 6.

Her first name, Lilibet, is a nod to Her Majesty The Queen's nickname. Her middle name is in honour of her grandmother and Harry's mother.

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"On June 4^th, we were blessed with the arrival of our daughter, Lili," the Sussexes said, in a statement.

"She is more than we could have ever imagined, and we remain grateful for the love and prayers we've felt from across the globe.

"Thank you for your continued kindness and support during this very special time for our family."

The couple said both the baby and her mother were healthy and well, settling in at home.

No photos of the newborn or the Sussexes accompanied the announcement.

The couple had announced they were expecting their second child by releasing a photo and statement on Valentine's Day.

Captured in their backyard, it showed Meghan laying in Harry's lap with her right hand resting on her baby bump.

A spokesperson for the couple said at the time: "We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child."

During the couple's tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired in March, they revealed they were expecting a girl and said their daughter's birth would complete their family.

"Just grateful … to have any child, any one or any two would have been amazing. But to have a boy and then a girl, you know, what more can you ask for?" Harry said at the time.

"But now … we've got our family. We've got, you know, the four of us and our two dogs, and it's great."

As was the case for Archie, the baby won't receive a royal title.

Harry and Meghan had reportedly planned a home birth for their first child at their previous home in the UK, Frogmore Cottage, with an all-female midwife team.

Instead, the duchess welcomed Archie at Portland Hospital in London.

The Sussexes' daughter is eighth in line to the British throne. Even though Harry and Meghan stepped back from their roles as senior working royals in March 2020, the line of succession remains in play.

Harry currently sits in sixth place, with Archie following him at number seven.

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A 23-year-old woman says she was tailgated, threatened and then rammed head-on by an out-of-control drunk driver in an alleged road rage attack in Adelaide's south.

Just before 10am, authorities were called to Tiller Drive and Commercial Road in Seaford after reports there had been a number of road incidents.

Witnesses were there to help as the driver allegedly continued his rampage on the busy road.

"I didn't know what to do, where to go," Chloe told 9News.

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"He came up next to me, asked me to wind down the window and said 'I'm going to hit you', 'you're dead.'"

Fearing for her safety, Chloe phoned her father, Gary.

"I could hear it in her voice she was getting more and more frightened," he told 9News.

"So, I jumped into my car and then I heard her say 'he's going to hit me', 'he's just hit me' and then I thought that was it and then I heard her screaming 'he's coming at me again.'"

Chloe says she was left bracing in the front seat of her car as the drunk driver lined her up, before ramming her car head-on.

"He reversed into me, drove through the red light, U-turned and then rammed me head-on at full pelt," she said.

The force of the impact pushed her SUV into the car behind her.

She suffered burns from the airbag but was otherwise physically unharmed.

Police allege the driver of a white ute, a 39-year-old Moana man, was more than three times the legal alcohol limit.

Police allege after the attack the man drove at witnesses standing at the side of the road before parking his car metres from the scene and attempting to flee.

Members of the public stepped in to stop him.

"There was a bit of a punch up on the road," resident Nicole Remnant told 9News.

"And they just … distracted him."

The accused man was arrested at the scene and remains behind bars.

He's been charged with three counts of acts to endanger life, aggravated driving without due care and drink driving.

He has been banned from driving for 12 months and is due to face court on Monday.

Health authorities are contacting scores of people in Western Australia after a man tested positive to COVID-19 after being released from the state's quarantine hotels.

WA Chief Health Officer Dr Andrew Robertson confirmed the case in a press conference this afternoon, saying it was not a virus variant of concern.

Dr Robertson said the man left his hotel on Friday and visited a number of venues before he returned to quarantine yesterday as a precaution.

Exposure sites have been listed and contact tracing is underway.

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"This case had done 14 days in a hotel and then had been cleared in accordance with the national guidelines on day 10," Dr Robertson said.

He said the man was allowed out of the hotel yesterday and was tested in line with the requirements of his maritime industry workplace. He returned a positive test.

"Getting positive tests on PCR is not unusual," Dr Robertson said.

"We often get people who are chronic shedders, but the test result was more moderately positive than we would anticipate. So, as a precaution, we have put him back into one of the quarantine hotels and have taken further tests.

"His test today was weaker which is more in line with what we would expect with somebody who was a chronic shedder and we believe that he is a non-infectious chronic shedder".

Dr Robertson said WA health authorities believe the man shedded viral particles and not the virus.

"We do not believe he is of major concern to the community," he said.

"Having said that, we have taken a very precautionary approach. He only got out at lunchtime yesterday, he visited a couple of places. He visited a pharmacy, he visited a telephone store, and he had a meal at a hotel."

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Dr Robertson said he believed only a small number of people potentially came in contact with the man.

"There may have been 12 people at the restaurant and a similar number in the store," he said.

"We're just asking (them) to get tested in the next day or so. We are not requiring them to quarantine. Obviously, if they develop symptoms then we would ask them to isolate.

"Just to reinforce, we do not believe he is infectious."

The federal government will release an extra 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines to Victoria, as the state continues to battle a coronavirus outbreak.

Victoria is in its second week of lockdown with the state recording positive cases of the potentially deadly virus on a daily basis since late last month.

Today the state reported two new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of active cases to 85.

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An additional two new cases have also been reported by an aged care facility in Melbourne, neither of which are yet to be included in the state's official numbers.

Health Minister Greg Hunt said the state will have access to an additional 100,000 Pfizer vaccines over a three-week period from June 14.

"This will allow them to work through some of their existing inventory and will provide that extra 100,000 doses which will support 50,000 individuals over the coming weeks," Mr Hunt told reporters.

"My understanding is that Victoria has received 980,000 doses to date, (and) has administered over 613,000 doses, but this week they will work through some of that inventory, so we are providing additional 100,000, which is for 50,000 people to have both first and second doses."

He said all states and territories are managing the vaccine inventory well.

Mr Hunt said more than 770,000 Australians have been vaccinated in six days, this means more than 5 million vaccines have now been delivered in Australia.

"Now at the moment, with momentum, is the time we asked Australian to keep coming forward to be vaccinated. You're doing an awesome job," he said.

Mr Hunt said the federal government will also double the doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

He said it is expected from July there will be a ramping up of Australia's vaccine program, particularly with the Pfizer doses, jumping from 300,000 to about 600,000 a week.

"We will build up over the course of July, started low and build up high over the course of July, that will be maintained," he said.

"Then during October, November and December, we will have approximately 27 million doses of Pfizer."

Australian Medical Association Victoria head Roderick McRae today praised the federal government's vaccine increase, before offering a virus reminder.

"We want our GPs to be undertaking the vaccinations at maximum pace, as much as they possibly can, because tragically, this is a real virus. It is highly infectious, it is spread by aerosol and it occasionally kills people," Mr McRae said.

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"As age advances, we know that over 70 years of age, the mortality is 70 per cent that comes from the observations of the northern hemisphere have done all their experiments for us.

"We are relying on experts to analyse information and get it out there.

"I cannot over emphasise how important it is that people get vaccinated."

The COVID-19 outbreak in Victoria's aged care system has spread further, with a resident and nurse testing positive to the virus.

An aged care resident and a nurse at the Arcare facility in Maidstone returned positive tests to the virus on Sunday.

"Arcare is saddened to advise that we have two new cases of COVID-19 at our Maidstone residence," a statement from the facility read.

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"One is a 79-year-old resident who lives in close proximity to the first two residents diagnosed.

"The second is an agency registered nurse who last worked at the residence yesterday."

The resident, who has had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine, is asymptomatic but will be transferred to hospital for public health reasons, coordinated by the Victorian Department of Health.

The employee has received the first dose of the vaccine and is also asymptomatic.

All team members who worked at Arcare on Saturday are isolating and will get a COVID-19 test.

The aged care home is undergoing a coronavirus "testing blitz".

Victoria recorded four new infections today but despite the low numbers there's no indication of an early end to Melbourne's lockdown.

"The Delta variant, it is much, much more infectious than what we were dealing with last year," acting Victorian Premier James Merlino said.

The Delta variant has health authorities concerned, with the virus lurking in the wastewater of some of Melbourne's inner west suburbs including Footscray, Moonee Ponds and Flemington.

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"This new detection is of interest because there are no confirmed cases in that area," Deputy Chief Health Officer Professor Allen Cheng said.

"What we are somewhat concerned about are the upstream, so … for these cases where we can't find who gave them the infection and particularly the family who returned from Jervis Bay (in NSW)."

Mr Merlino said it is likely there will be further easing of restrictions in regional Victoria and careful easing of restrictions in Melbourne.

"We've just got to drive this thing (COVID-19) to the ground," he said.