SYDNEY (REUTERS) - Australian public life could be constrained for another year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned on Friday (April 17), as the country's most populous state mulled sending children to school in shifts.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - Australian public life could be constrained for another year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned on Friday , as the country's most populous state mulled sending children to school in shifts.
Restaurants, bars and other"non-essential" businesses have closed and public gatherings of more than two people are banned under the threat of fines and even prison, measures that are expected to double the unemployment rate by mid-year. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said some measures, like the rule requiring people to stand at least 1.5 metres apart, would likely remain for several months, given there was no guarantee a vaccine would be developed in that time."It could be a year, but I'm not speculating about that.
In Australia's second most populous state, Victoria, just 3 per cent of children returned to school after the Easter break this week, while the most populous state, New South Wales, has children still on a break.
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