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NSW police will patrol caravan parks and use technology such as number plate recognition to ensure people are following social distancing rules over the Easter long weekend.

People with chronic or acute medical issues are being urged not to stay away from doctors and hospitals during the coronavirus crisis.

Elderly people who have suspended in-home services during the coronavirus crisis will soon receive welfare checks over the phone.

WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY?* Federal parliament is sitting with a scaled-down number of members and senators to pass a package of laws to help Australians get through the economic damage from COVID-19* Labor still has concerns but won't stand in the way of the laws passing by the day's endHOW DOES...

Halfway into New Zealand's four-week lockdown and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is cautiously optimistic her country has turned the corner in the fight against COVID-19.

Just hours after Australia's highest court threw out the sex abuse conviction of the Vatican's former treasurer, Pope Francis offered his morning Mass for all those who suffer from unjust sentences, which he compared to the persecution of Jesus.

Panic buying is causing a shortage of grocery supplies in remote indigenous communities, forcing many vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to travel long distances to shop, exposing them to the spread of COVID-19.

British prime minister Boris Johnson was stable overnight in intensive care after suffering a deterioration of his COVID-19 symptoms and he remains in good spirits.