Czech officials have said that the coronavirus spread remains under control almost two weeks after shopping malls, cinemas and restaurant terraces reopened as part of an extensive easing of lockdown measures
"The massive easing of May 11 did not affect the epidemiological curve," Health Minister Adam Vojtech told reporters.
"The epidemiological situation is very stable... very positive," Ladislav Dusek, head of the Czech Institute of Health Information and Statistics, told reporters.Czechia will further ease measures that were adopted in mid-March on 25 May. A day later, the country will switch from blanket border checks to random checks, but it will still request a negative test from those entering the country.The coronavirus death toll in Brazil has surpassed 20,000 after another record number of fatalities in a 24-hour period, the health ministry said.
With its curve of infections and deaths rising sharply, the country of 210 million ranks third in the world in terms of total cases, behind the United States and Russia. But almost all of the country's 27 states are under some sort of lockdown order, though Brazilians are wearying of the restrictions in place since the end of March.Australia has extended its ban on most international cruise ships for three months until mid-September, making no mention of a hoped-for exemption for travel to neighbouring New Zealand.
Australia first announced the ban on international cruise liners on 27 March when nearly 30 liners were in its territorial waters.The former passengers have accounted for more than 20 of the 101 deaths registered from the disease in the country.
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