Sydney video journalist Taylor Denny captured this stirring rendition of 'The Last Post', played by Leichhardt local Sarah Brown on the balcony of a local pub this morning.
Locals stood on the street below holding candles and maintained social distancing rules.
New York has reported its lowest number of deaths since March 31, with 422 deaths on Thursday.
More than 16,000 people have died in the state from the outbreak.
New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo Credit:AP
"Again, this is at an unimaginable level, and it's dropping somewhat. But it's still devastating news," Governor Andrew Cuomo said at his daily briefing.
The total number of people hospitalised statewide continues to drop slowly, hitting 14,258, though the number of new patients coming into hospitals is basically flat at around 1300, Cuomo said.
While the overall trends provide some hope, the governor continued to stress that any gains could be lost quickly if social distancing restrictions are relaxed too quickly.
"How fast is the decline, how low is the decline?" Cuomo asked. "Again, the variable is what we do."
New York has begun to increase the amount of testing, conducting 34,736 on Thursday, compared to around 20,000 usually.
Cuomo administration officials cite an executive order directing private and public labs to work with the state to prioritise coronavirus testing.
The state hopes to conduct as many as 40,000 tests a day.
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World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 and to share them around the globe, but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organisation initiative.
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa were among those who joined a video conference to launch what the WHO billed as a "landmark collaboration" to fight the pandemic.
The aim is to speed development of safe and effective drugs, tests and vaccines to prevent, diagnose and treat COVID-19, the lung disease caused be the novel coronavirus - and ensure equal access to treatments for rich and poor.
"We are facing a common threat which we can only defeat with a common approach," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as he opened the virtual meeting.
"Experience has told us that even when tools are available they have not been equally available to all. We cannot allow that to happen.
"During the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009, there was criticism that distribution of vaccines was not equitable as wealthier countries were able to purchase more."We must make sure that people who need them get them," said Peter Sands, head of the Global Fund to Fight on AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
"The lessons from AIDS must be learned. Too many millions died before anti-retroviral medicines were made widely accessible."
Leaders from Asia, the Middle East and the Americas also joined the videoconference, but several big countries did not participate, including China, India and Russia.
A spokesman for the US mission in Geneva had earlier told Reuters that the United States would not be involved.
"Although the United States was not in attendance at the meeting in question, there should be no doubt about our continuing determination to lead on global health matters, including the current COVID crisis," he said by email.
"We remain deeply concerned about the WHO's effectiveness, given that its gross failures helped fuel the current pandemic," he later said.
US President Donald Trump has lambasted the WHO as being slow to react to the outbreak and being "China-centric" and announced a suspension of funding.
Tedros has steadfastly defended the WHO's handling of the pandemic and repeatedly committed to conducting a post-pandemic evaluation, as the agency does with all crises.
Qantas will on Saturday operate a rescue flight to Melbourne from Argentina, bringing another 150 Australians and 20 stranded New Zealanders home from South America.
The flight is being operated by Qantas on behalf of the Australian government.
QF7028 will depart Buenos Aires at 2pm local time on April 25 and land in Melbourne at 7.30pm on Sunday 26 April.
This will be the last government rescue flight from Argentina, said a statement from the Australian embassy in Buenos Aires earlier this week.
Our photographer Eddie Jim captured a special Anzac dawn service on Clara Street in Macleod this morning - where about 30 residents stood on their street with candles, fairy lights and flags.
Macleod residents rugged up in the dark to pay their respects.Credit:Eddie Jim
Sandra Deed in Clara Street setup a small dawn service on Anzac day.Credit:Eddie Jim
Bill Telfer and wife Chris on Clara Street predawn.Credit:Eddie Jim
Even as the confirmed US death toll from coronavirus soared past 50,000, Georgia, Oklahoma and Alaska began loosening lockdown orders on their pandemic-wounded businesses, despite warnings from health experts that the gradual steps toward normalcy might be happening too soon.
Republican governors in Georgia and Oklahoma allowed salons, spas and barbershops to reopen, while Alaska opened the way for restaurants to resume dine-in service and retail shops and other businesses to open their doors, all with limitations. Some Alaska municipalities chose to maintain stricter rules.
With deaths and infections still rising in Georgia, many business owners planned to stay closed despite Governor Brian Kemp's assurance that hospital visits and new cases have levelled off enough for barbers, tattoo artists, massage therapists and personal trainers to return to work with restrictions.
Kemp's timeline to restart the economy proved too ambitious even for President Donald Trump, who said he disagrees with the fellow Republican's plan.
A major Australian company paid for masks in a 90-tonne cargo flight from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus, and then tried to offload them to the Australian government for a profit.
The large Australian supplier's offer was rejected after it sourced the medical supplies from Wuhan after the crisis had largely passed there earlier this month.
Australia rejected huge offers for medical supplies from China.Credit:REUTERS/Pichi Chuang
As part of a strategy to lock in long-term deals and weed out dodgy products, the Australian government has rebuffed a number of unsolicited advances from private companies for hundreds of tonnes of medical supplies to fight COVID-19, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age can reveal.
I've received some really lovely photos from you all this morning, all reflecting on Anzac day in your own way during isolation. You can email in here. Here's just a few from readers around the state:
Cub scouts Edwina and Florence Keating, Dawn Service on Hoddle Street.Credit:Tammy Jensen
Dale Munckton, playing 'The Last Post' from his driveway at Cowes, Phillip Island.
Josie, 11, and Eliza, 9, played 'The Last Post' this morning outside their home in Hawthorn. Credit:Diane Parcell
Andrew Borthwick's family on their balcony at Apollo Bay on Anzac day.Credit:Andrew Borthwick
Rob Feeney's young family play the last post in Malvern on Saturday morning.Credit:Rob Feeney
Local residents at Pinedale Avenue at Cape Woolamai on Phillip Island observed a special Anzac dawn service together.Credit:Anthony Jiang
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Melbourne CBD's Emporium shopping centre is reopening and an AFL restart in June looks a step closer, offering hope to those with itchy feet that Victoria is emerging from pandemic lockdown.
There are signs that the coronavirus freeze may be already starting to thaw, with more people in Melbourne than in recent weeks after strict social distancing rules forced the closure of many businesses.
Foot traffic along Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall has slightly picked up.Credit:Simon Schluter
On a fine Autumn Friday afternoon, when the city would have been abuzz with people before the virus, pedestrian numbers on Bourke Street were up slightly on recent weeks.
The City of Melbourne's foot traffic sensors counted 536 people passing Bourke Street Mall between midday and 1pm on Friday, up 43 per cent from the four-week average of 374.
However, that was still well down on the average in the past year of 3042.
Dettol has issued a statement saying that "under no circumstance" should people ingest or inject disinfectant into themselves to treat coronavirus.
The extraordinary statement follows Donald Trump's comments at his news conference on Thursday night, in which the US President suggested trials could be carried out to see if disinfectant or UV light could kill coronavirus in the human body.
Donald Trump has mused on whether an injection of disinfectant would kill coronavirus in patients.
Dettol issued a statement on its website, saying it had been asked "whether internal administration of disinfectants may be appropriate for investigation or use as a treatment for coronavirus."
The company was unequivocal.
"As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route).
"As with all products, our disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as intended and in line with usage guidelines.
"Please read the label and safety information.
"We have a responsibility in providing consumers with access to accurate, up-to-date information as advised by leading public health experts.
"For this and other myth-busting facts, please visit Covid-19facts.com."
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