Australia’s coronavirus curve has shown early signs of beginning to flatten.

The daily rate of new cases of the virus, compared to a week ago, has dramatically fallen, Health Minister Greg Hunt said.

He said the daily rate of increase in cases this time last Sunday was about 25 to 30 per cent.

Now, he says, it is closer to being in the low teens.

However, he said there is still more work to be done.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt. Credit: ERIK ANDERSON / AAPIMAGE

“That is an early positive sign,” he told reporters in Canberra.

“We have so much more work to do but, by people isolating, by people being able to social distance and they are really doing this, Australians are rising magnificently to this challenge.

“We want to say thank you and to those of you who are not, you have to take these measures because they are about saving lives.”

In the video below: The latest on the coronavirus outbreak from around Australia

Your cookie settings are preventing this third party content from displaying. If you’d like to view this content, please adjust your Cookie Settings . To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Guide.

It comes after strict new measures on international arrivals were introduced at midnight on Saturday.

Anyone arriving in the country will be forcibly quarantined in a hotel or other government-mandated facility.

More on 7NEWS.com.au

Since Australia’s borders were closed to foreigners earlier in the week, the only people arriving at airports will be residents and citizens.

About two-thirds of Australia’s total cases, more than 3,800, were acquired overseas.

Your cookie settings are preventing this third party content from displaying. If you’d like to view this content, please adjust your Cookie Settings . To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Guide.

While Australia’s infection rate may have slowed down, the death rate has jumped.

A further two Australians died on Sunday - a 75-year-old woman from Queensland and a Victorian man in his 80s.

That’s up from eight on Wednesday.