Australia will consider early easing of coronavirus restrictions next week, officials have announced, as the number of local cases dwindled and the economic impact of the crisis fell into painful relief.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the national cabinet would meet on 8 May - a week earlier than expected - to weigh loosening social distancing measures that have kept millions of Australians at home, barred almost all travel and slowed business to a crawl. "We need to restart our economy.
We need to restart our society. We can't keep Australia under the doona," Mr Morrison said, using a local term for a duvet. "We need to be able to move ahead." Australia has detected almost 7,000 Covid-19 infections, but new daily cases are now close