Australian officials are investigating whether an illegal social gathering of health workers is behind a spike in coronavirus cases in the island ...
MELBOURNE: Australian officials are investigating whether an illegal social gathering of health workers is behind a spike in coronavirus cases in the island state of Tasmania, as the government forecastTasmania Premier Peter Gutwein said on Tuesday there has been a 50 per cent spike in the state's COVID-19 cases since Thursday, even as the rate of reported new infections continued to significantly slow across the rest of the country.
The probe came as Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed the government expects unemployment to double from the current 5.1 per cent to 10 per cent by the end of June, which would mark the first time it has hit double digits since 1994. That equates to around 700,000 people without jobs, the Treasury said.However, Morrison rejected suggestions the jobless rate could soar as high as 20 per cent.
New Zealand on Tuesday forecast its own unemployment rate to reach 26per cent if tough lockdown measures are extended.Australia has reported around 6,350 COVID-19 cases and 41 deaths at a rate that has continued to slow, but officials cautioned that recent numbers may have been thinned out by lower testing over the four-day Easter holiday weekend.
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