Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt is due to address the media at 10am, you can watch his press conference live and follow all of today's developments in our blog.
The number of cases around the world has hit 4.87 million, while 321,590 people have died and another 1.66 million have recovered, according to Johns Hopkins University data.has passed the World Health Assembly with no objectionsThe Australian death toll reached 100 yesterday, after the death of Alice Bacon, a 93-year-old resident of Newmarch House aged care in Sydney.
"We are expecting that Victoria’s economy will be most affected by the coronavirus. Victoria’s population growth is driven by net overseas and net interstate migration both of which have slowed sharply," she said."Our forecasts also show a relatively large slowdown for the NSW economy too. It is more reliant on the services sector more generally.
Despite this, the WA economy is tipped to shrink by 0.3 per cent this year and by another 2 per cent in 2020-21. It is tipped to grow by 3 per cent in 2020-21.Mr Hunt says it’s up to states to decide when they reopen their borders for travel and leisure. “The states are following medical advice, the national cabinet and medical cabinet are all following advice. So we respect that they are following the relevant medical advice for that.”
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