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Despite this, the curve continues to flatten in NSW with the state recording its lowest number of infections in a single day since the Covid-19 crisis began.

Health authorities closed Warragamba Public School after a seven-year-old student tested positive. The boy was the sole new case of Covid-19 in NSW despite more than 5,500 people being tested in the 24 hours to 8pm Sunday.

While a school student contracting the virus will do little to allay the fears of school teachers, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian nevertheless indicated the government would be aiming to have all children back in classrooms for full-time face-to-face teaching by the end of the month.

All 16 NRL clubs have been cleared to resume operations today, having spent the past six weeks maintaining strength and fitness in isolation during the pandemic shutdown. Players will undergo an intensive biosecurity briefing today to educate them about the stringent protocols the NRL has introduced..

Victoria confirmed it had a further 22 cases, 19 of which were linked to a Melbourne meat processing plant which has not been named. It took the number of cases in the abattoir cluster to 34.

Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the outbreak was "not a risk to the general community and it's not going to get out of control".

Victoria tested a record 13,000 people for coronavirus yesterday.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced schools in the state will partially reopen from next week, with an expected return of all students from May 25 if all went to plan.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be a guest at tomorrow's national cabinet meeting. It will be the first of two meetings of the cabinet this week, and it has been anticipated that further easing of restrictions will be announced on Friday.

Mr Morrison indicated that New Zealand would likely be the first place with which Australia would renew international travel.

Today, New Zealand reported no new cases of Covid-19 for the first time in a month.

Reports indicate that there are now more than three and a half million cases of Covid-19 worldwide and the death toll is nearing 250,000.

The daily death rate in America's worst-hit state, New York, is declining, but figures confirm cases in the US are still on the rise.

Spain and Italy are beginning to emerge from extended lockdowns while Russia reported its biggest one-day rise in new infections.

In Spain, where 25,264 have died, adults have been allowed back on the streets for the purpose of exercise.

There is now widespread concern that the indigenous people of South America are facing an extreme threat to their survival as a consequence of the spreading virus.

US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has ramped up the blame game by saying, that "there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan", though he didn't elaborate on his claim.

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