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Tasmania and the Northern Territory are expected to move to the next phase of their coronavirus responses today, in a growing sign Australia is on the road to recovery. Fewer than one-thousand cases remain active across the country, with just 17 new infections in the past day. South Australia has now recorded a week without a new case. New South Wales remains the country's worst-affected state, and there's deep concern about a serious cluster of infection at the Newmarch House nursing home in western Sydney, where another resident died yesterday.
Blood claimed to be from recovered coronavirus patients is being offered on the Dark Web as a "passive vaccine". Researchers from the Australian national university have uncovered hundreds of illegal coronavirus-related products for sale online. One alleged "cure" was priced at almost 25-thousand dollars.
The coronavirus crisis has caused the US economy to suffer its most severe contraction in more than a decade. The world's largest economy has shrunk by four-point-eight per cent during the first quarter. The US death toll is now nearing 60-thousand people. Meanwhile in the UK, 26 thousand people have died. Britain now has Europe's second highest offical death toll from the pandemic.
At least 38 people have been killed with more feared dead, in a fire at a South Korean construction site. The blaze in Icheon was caused by an explosion of flammable material being used to build a warehouse.
