US approaches horrific milestone; border restrictions tightened in Australian state of New South Wales; Brazil passes 100,000 deaths
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Australia’s finance minister, Mathias Cormann, says the federal government now supports the current border restrictions that several states have put in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
The comments by Cormann, the senior minister from Western Australia, reflect the dramatic shift in the Australian government’s position on the internal border closures after strong public support for the measures in places like WA.
China has reported 23 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday. Eight cases were imported, and all 15 of the locally transmitted cases were in the region of Xinjiang, where observers have expressed fear the current virus outbreak could reach China’s internationally criticised re-education camps.
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