NZ, Australia say too soon to ease restrictions despite Covid-19 slowdown

CORONAVIRUS | New Zealand has enforced a wide-ranging lockdown and Australia is also tightly restricting many activities.

| Officials in New Zealand and Australia, hailed globally for their early signs of success in combating the spread of the coronavirus, said on Monday it is too soon to start easing social distancing rules or reopening their economies.

New Zealand recorded its fifth death due to coronavirus on Monday, but new confirmed cases in the Pacific nation of about five million rose only by 15, a sixth of what was seen in early April, bringing the total of cases to 1,064. Australia deployed its toughest crackdown yet over the long Easter holiday weekend, with helicopters, police checkpoints and hefty fines used to deter people from breaking a travel ban or breaching public gathering rules.radio the government may start making decisions only "in the coming weeks" about what restrictions, if any, can be relaxed.

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