All of Sydney’s eastern beaches to close on Sunday to enforce Covid-19 social distancing –as it happened
Australia rolls out new social distancing rules as number of people testing positive for Covid-19 nationally passes 1,000 and New Zealand reports its biggest single-day rise in cases. This blog is now closed.
9.17am GMT
Closing up our live Australia coverage of coronavirus for the day, but you can keep on top of all the latest developments elsewhere with our global live blog.
But before you go, here's the main developments from Australia today.
8.39am GMT
Writer, broadcaster and Guardian Australia contributor Geoff Lemon has caught coronavirus. He has some advice. Take care of yourself Geoff.
I did almost everything right. Worked at home. Saw one friend in the last 10 days. Had a beer for an hour outside a pub, either side of a big table. Fresh air, no contact. Washed my hands 3 times.
Still caught corona from him.
Do not fuck around with this thing.