{"id":18422,"date":"2020-05-20T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/20\/coronavirus-australia-news-nsw-travel-restrictions-qld-victoria-covid-manufacturing-latest-updates"},"modified":"2020-05-20T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:16:11","slug":"coronavirus-australia-live-news-qld-woman-tests-positive-two-months-after-travel-and-nsw-lifts-travel-restrictions-from-june-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18422","title":{"rendered":"Australia coronavirus news: deputy CMO says no medical reason for state border closures \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly says there is no medical justifications for states keeping borders shut and offers to brief premiers. This blog is now closed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/20\/coronavirus-australia-news-nsw-travel-restrictions-qld-victoria-covid-manufacturing-latest-updates?page=with:block-5ec4c2ef8f08a1782fa7df42#block-5ec4c2ef8f08a1782fa7df42\">No medical reason to keep borders closed, deputy CMO tells states<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/20\/coronavirus-live-news-brazil-sees-record-daily-deaths-as-world-bank-warns-60m-to-fall-into-extreme-poverty\">Follow the global coronavirus liveblog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/datablog\/ng-interactive\/2020\/may\/07\/coronavirus-cases-australia-numbers-map-how-many-new-today-stats-statistics-graph-hotspots-by-postcode-covid-19-deaths-death-toll?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Coronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2020\/mar\/28\/sign-up-for-guardian-australias-daily-coronavirus-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus email<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app to get the most important news notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-05-20T09:12:25.242Z\">10.12am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where we will leave the live blog for this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you may have missed today:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-05-20T09:06:57.254Z\">10.06am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>South Australia police report more than a dozen people have been fined $1,000 each for breaching gathering restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>There was a large fight in Whyalla Norrie on Saturday night, and police found between 30 and 40 people there. They weren\u2019t fined, but later at the same location police found a large group of people celebrating a birthday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/20\/coronavirus-australia-news-nsw-travel-restrictions-qld-victoria-covid-manufacturing-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly says there is no medical justifications for states keeping borders shut and offers to brief premiers. This blog is now closedNo medical reason to keep borders closed, deputy CMO tells statesFollow the global coro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[961,43,536,645,324,6,50,534,1069,346,914,735,571,816,680,1421,1342,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-australia-news","category-australian-economy","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-business","category-china","category-coalition","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-labor-party","category-liberal-party","category-new-south-wales","category-queensland","category-south-australia","category-victoria","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18464,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions\/18464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}