Australia allows home visits, opens beaches as COVID-19 lockdown eases

Australia allows home visits, opens beaches as virus lockdown eases

SYDNEY: Australia's most populous state said on Tuesday it will relax some restrictions on movement as beaches reopened amid hopes a policy of widespread medical testing will help sustain a decline in new cases of the coronavirus.

New South Wales state, which is home to nearly half of Australia's cases of the illness, meanwhile said it would let up to two adults visit another person's home from Friday, relaxing a ban on non-essential movement. "Two adults will be able to go and visit anybody else in their home on the basis of care, on the basis of reducing social isolation and everybody's mental health."Children were allowed to accompany adults on house visits, and people who were feeling unwell should stay home, Berejiklian added.Australia has avoided the high numbers of deaths seen in other countries as the coronavirus, formally called COVID-19, ravages communities around the world.

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