Sydney's Bondi, Bronte and Tamarama beaches will reopen on Tuesday morning but for local swimmers and surfers only.
Waverley mayor Paula Masselos said residents will be able to swim or surf at the beaches in Sydney's eastern suburbs between 7am and 5pm on weekdays.
There will be designated entry and exit points at each beach, and people will be expected to exit the area after using the water.
The mayor said the "swim and go" and "surf and go" measures were strictly for Waverley residents and people from further afield were unwelcome.
Beaches at neighbouring Randwick Council had to be closed on Friday after large groups of people flocked to the coast to sit on the sand or have a swim, defying council rules they must only use the spots for exercise.
The city's famous Bondi Beach has been closed since March 21, after pictures of large crowds gathering on the sand were published.
Bondi Beach locals pass a closed beach last week.Credit:Peter Rae
Good morning, this is Mary Ward taking over the blog. Here's the front page of today's Sydney Morning Herald.
We will be bringing you live coverage throughout the day. You can also sign up to our nightly newsletter, which will catch you up with the big developments at dinner.
Good morning, if you are just joining us, here are the developments overnight:
Overseas:
- The US coronavirus taskforce will resume briefings later in the week as the administration enters the reopening phase of the fight against the coronavirus, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters
- New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticised her home state's decision to cancel primary voting today, calling it "completely wrong."
- Billionaire Bill Gates's foundation will focus all of its resources on fighting the coronavirus, according to the Financial Times.
- The British government will pay 60,000 pounds ($115,292) to families of health workers who die of COVID-19
And that's it from me, I'm handing over to Mary Ward who will take you through the day's developments.
Families of British health and care workers who die on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic will be paid 60,000 pounds ($115,292) as part of a new life assurance scheme, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday.
Britain has one of the world's highest death tolls - 21,092 hospital deaths and thousands more yet to be quantified in care homes. Among those, 98 health and care service workers are known to have died after testing positive for the virus, Hancock said.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock.Credit:Pippa Fowles
"The government is setting up a life assurance scheme for NHS (National Health Service) and social care frontline colleagues," Hancock said.
"Families of staff who die from coronavirus in the course of their essential frontline work will receive a 60,000-pound payment."
The scheme is aimed at families of those who die from coronavirus during the course of essential and life-saving work, and includes those providing direct care as well as cleaners and porters.
It only applies to workers in England, but devolved administrations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will receive central government funding for similar programs.
The government has put thousands of recently retired medical staff back into action and fast-tracked final-year students to the front line to cope with the surge in demand for health services during the outbreak.
The UK Culture Secretary says talks are ongoing to get the Premier League up and running as soon as possible.
Oliver Dowden's department is leading discussions on how professional sport can restart should coronavirus lockdown restrictions be eased.
Ladder leaders: Sadio Mane's Liverpool were running away with the league before play was suspended. Credit:Getty Images
Weekly meetings from this week onwards are due to take place between medical officials from the major sports governing bodies and representatives of Public Health England.
It is understood the Premier League's medical adviser Mark Gillett and the Football Association's head of medicine Charlotte Cowie will be among those involved in the Government discussions.
Any resumption of sport could only happen if the government's five tests are fulfilled, covering such areas as NHS capacity, the availability of testing and PPE and a fall in the death and infection rates.
It is accepted that for the foreseeable future this would be about sporting events happening behind closed doors.
The Premier League's resumption is being kept under constant review, with the clubs set to gather for a shareholders' meeting on Friday.
"I personally have been in talks with the Premier League with a view to getting football up and running as soon as possible in order to support the whole football community," Dowden said.
"But, of course, any such moves would have to be consistent with public health guidance."
Other European leagues are working towards a restart.
The German Bundesliga is due to return next month, subject to clearance from the relevant authorities, with its clubs already back in training.
France's Ligue 1 is targeting a mid-June return with players set to begin returning to training on May 11, while in Italy, the prime minister Giuseppe Conte said sports teams could resume group training from May 18.
PA
Ireland's National Public Health Emergency Team will not be able to recommend easing stay-home restrictions on May 5 unless progress on the spread and impact of the coronavirus is made this week, Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan said.
A number of countries have announced the easing of lockdowns and Holohan raised hopes Ireland would join them next week when he said on April 16 that the country had contained the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak.
However, he said on Monday that improvements in the number of new cases, in hospitalisations and admissions to intensive care units had since slowed down. Ireland's caretaker government has adopted the advice of Holohan's team in full to date.
"I was saying that if the assessment was being made towards the end of last week, we wouldn't be recommending that we had arrived at a point where we would be lifting those restrictions. If anything, I'm more firmly of that view given what we're seeing," the medical chief told a news conference.
"We're seeing a persistent admission rate to intensive care units, we'd like to see that number come down. We're still reporting a significant number of cases and we still have a significant challenge in healthcare facilities ... We're still seeing improvement, but it's slowed down."
Ireland reported 386 new cases on Monday to bring its total to 19,648, with 18 more deaths increasing COVID-19 related fatalities to 1102.
There were 146 patients in intensive care, Holohan said, and while hospitals have further critical care capacity, patients are currently being admitted and discharged at roughly the same rate.
Holohan, whose team meets on Tuesday and Friday, also said there was evidence of a reduction in the level of compliance with the measures introduced a month ago that limit most people to brief daily exercise and trips to the supermarket.
"The majority of the population are still working really hard with us... For the sake of everybody, we are asking that everyone doubles down now," Holohan said, adding he had witnessed a lot more people out and about last weekend.
"We've done great work together as a country to prevent the widespread community transmission of this virus that could have led to the kind of scenes we saw in many European cities and in North America, but we could quite easily slip back into that kind of risk if things were to slip."
Reuters
The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France has risen by 437 to 23,293, the health ministry said.
The 1.9 per cent increase on Monday is the highest in four days but well below the more than 4.0 per cent rate recorded 10 days ago.
The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 infection fell further to 28,055 from 28,217 on Sunday and the number of people in intensive care fell to 4608 from 4682 on Sunday.
Both have been on a downward trend for more than 10 days.
Reuters
London: Health officials in Britain are warning of a potential new coronavirus-related syndrome emerging in children, with a rise in cases prompting an urgent alert to doctors across the country.
The alert revealed an "apparent rise in the number of children of all ages presenting with a multi-system inflammatory state requiring intensive care across London and also in other regions of the United Kingdom".
The NHS has issued an alert to doctors about a potential new coronavirus-related syndrome.Credit:
Cases have been building over the past three weeks, according to the warning from National Health Service officials and distributed to doctors by the Paediatric Intensive Care Society.
"There is a growing concern that a [COVID-19] related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK, or that there may be another, as yet unidentified, infectious pathogen associated with these cases," the advisory note said.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told reporters at Downing Street that he was "very worried" by the development, which is now being investigated by one of the United Kingdom's most senior experts.
New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticised her home state's decision to cancel primary voting today, calling it "completely wrong."
"This decision is not informed by public health," she wrote on Twitter.
"The state is still holding elections for every other seat that day, & so far the only way your ballot will 100% be counted in NY is to vote in person!"
The cancellation comes after at least a dozen states, including New York, postponed their primaries or moved to mail-in-only voting because of the coronavirus pandemic. It was due to take place in June.
Democratic candidate Joe Biden has virtually sewn up the presidential nomination as the last of his rivals, Bernie Sanders, dropped out earlier this month.
New York state sends 320 delegates to the Democratic nominating convention. The state was initially slated to hold its primary on April 28 that but was postponed until June 23 by Governor Andrew Cuomo in late March.
New York has been the state hardest hit in the US by COVID-19 with 288,045 confirmed cases as of Monday and 22,376 deaths.
President Donald Trump and retailers are expected to announce wider availability of coronavirus tests as his administration seeks to address concerns from states and business leaders that US testing must be more robust for Americans to feel comfortable returning to work.
The President is scheduled to make the announcement this afternoon in a meeting with retail executives, according to two people familiar with the matter. They asked not to be identified because the details aren't public.
In pushing to start reopening the country, the White House has fielded broad concerns from business leaders and states that the US doesn't have sufficient testing to relent on social-distancing practices that have crippled the economy.
At Monday's event, it isn't clear whether the president will address shortages of materials needed to expand testing, including swabs to collect samples and chemical media to transport them to labs.
The new coronavirus has hit more than 968,000 Americans and killed nearly 55,000 as of Monday.
The US has performed more than 5.4 million coronavirus tests so far, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Trump praised executives from Walmart, Target, CVS Health, and Walgreens in a news conference in March, saying they had agreed to set up testing facilities in their parking lots.
But only a handful of locations opened within the first month of Trump's announcement, leading to criticism of the president for over-promising on the initiative.
More of the testing sites are beginning to open.
Bloomberg
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