US President Donald Trump is considering imposing an enforceable quarantine on New York, New Jersey and Connecticut:
Speaking in Norfolk, Virginia at a ceremony to send off the USNS Comfort which is headed to New York with critical medical supplies, the President said any quarantine would not affect trade.
Asked about Trump's threat, New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo said: "I don't even know what that means."
"I don't know how that could be legally enforceable and from a medical point of view, I don't even know what you would be accomplishing.
"I don't like the sound of it, not even understanding what it is," Governor Cuomo said.
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While the coronavirus pandemic has left large numbers of Australians unemployed as shops and businesses close, there are job increases in manufacturing, agriculture, distribution, transport and call centres and the medical sector.
There were 900 more jobs offered in state and territory hospitals in March than in February, including doctors, nurses and nurse support workers, but other sectors are also experiencing demand.
Construction projects are expected to continue.Credit:Simon Schluter
A spokeswoman for the Department of Education, Skills and Employment said there had been growth in logistics jobs such as truck drivers, store persons, shelf fillers and in some retail jobs such as pharmacists, checkout operators and commercial cleaners.
In manufacturing, demand increased in the categories of medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, food and groceries.
There was also increased activity in hiring for local and long distance transport workers and in logistics and warehousing.
The UK has reported 260 new deaths from coronavirus. It is Britain's highest single daily death toll for the third day in a row and takes total COVID-19 fatalities to 1019.
The country has more than 17,000 cases of infection from around 120,000 tests, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.
Among those infected are: Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Prince Charles.
The updated death toll came as officials provided the first glimpse into the temporary hospital being built by the military at the ExCel Centre in London's Docklands.
The NHS Nightingale hospital is one of three makeshift hospitals being built across the UK.
Number 10's photographer Andrew Parsons released these images of the initial 500 beds being constructed a short time ago.
The NHS Nightingale Hospital at the ExCel Centre in London.Credit:Andrew Parsons
A leading Melbourne infectious disease expert working on the frontline of the COVID-19 crisis has issued a stark warning to young people that they are not immune from the deadly pandemic.
Professor Anton Peleg, the head of infectious diseases at The Alfred hospital , said while mortality rates were significantly higher in older people, it was still possible for younger adults to develop a severe form of the disease or even die from it.
“This is not an all-or-nothing disease and while it is much less common for young people to develop severe illness they are not spared or immune to it,” Professor Peleg said.
Professor Peleg's warning comes after police moved crowds of people, many of them young adults ignoring social distancing rules, off St Kilda beach and foreshore.
Groups of people sunbathe at St Kilda in Melbourne on Saturday in front of a sign warning against gathering on the foreshore.Credit:AAP
In Victoria, those aged 25-29 make up the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, with 78.
UK cabinet minister Alok Sharma is leading the government's daily briefing from Number 10.
He says Prime Minister Boris Johnson has only mild symptoms and is "absolutely leading the response [to COVID-19] from the front," despite testing positive to the virus on Friday.
"There are no gaps of government," he said.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in a video posted on Twitter that he had caught COVID-19 but was continuing to work from home with only mild symptoms.
The latest news from Spain is grim.
The country has recorded 832 new deaths in a single day - its highest daily death toll.
Members of the national Spanish police guard the entrance of an ice rink temporarily converted into a morgue.Credit:Getty Images
With nearly 6000 dead since the outbreak, funeral homes have run out of room and the Spanish military has been called in to help transport the bodies of those killed by the virus.
Spain has the second-highest death toll behind Italy and 72,000 cases of infection.
In a televised address, the country's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez ordered Spain's non-essential workers to stay at home from work for two weeks "as if it were a weekend".
US president Donald Trump has signed into law his US$2.2 trillion ($3.5 trillion in Australian dollars) stimulus package.
The economic aid includes US$300 billion ($487 billion) in direct cash stimulus payments to Americans earning less than US$99,000 ($160,000) per year.
"I've never signed anything with a 't' on it," Trump said.
We should hear something in the next few hours about the number of new coronavirus diagnoses throughout the state and the number of people who have recovered from the infection.
As of yesterday afternoon, at least one case of COVID-19 had been confirmed in 60 of the state's 79 local government areas. Corangamite, Horsham, Strathbogie, Towong and Wodonga all recorded thier first confirmed infection on Saturday.
The bulk of the infections are in the Melbourne metropolitan region, with a total of 61 cases in Stonnington, 41 on the Mornington Peninsula, 36 in the City of Melbourne, 32 in Glen Eira, 31 in Moreland, 28 in Boroondara and 28 in Port Phillip.
Outside of Melbourne, there have been 33 confirmed cases in Greater Geelong, eight in Ballarat, six in Moira, five in Latrobe and five in Mitchell.
The Age's seience reporter Liam Mannix has a fascinating feature in todays' newspaper, which looks into the origins of coronavirus and how it may have mutated into the deadly disease that has infected more than 600,000 people globally in the space of a few months.
The virus was first observed in bats and has made the jump to humans, although exactly how that happened is still cause for speculation.
Professor Edward Holmes, of the University of Sydney, who cracked the genetic code of the virus that causes COVID-19, says the world should have been working on a coronavirus vaccine for years.
University of Sydney evolutionary biologist and virologist Professor Edward Holmes said he was shocked at how fas coronavirus has spread, but he’s not shocked it was a bat coronavirus that caused a worldwide pandemic.
Environmental damage, illegal wildlife trading (pangolins in particular are heavily traded), wet markets and the climate crisis are all combining to push humans and bats closer than ever before.
“It is blindingly obvious that we as humans have to change the way we interact with the animal world. There is no doubt about that,” he says. “And it’s not the animals' fault.
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