The Australian Capital Territory has become the first of the country’s eight states and mainland territories to declare itself free of all known cases of the coronavirus.
A photographer checks her camera at an empty Aqua Park Shinagawa during a media preview in Tokyo Thursday, April 30, 2020. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expanded a state of emergency to all of Japan from just Tokyo and other urban areas as the virus continues to spread.
There have been 106 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canberra and three patients have died. The capital territory has a population of only 420,000, the second-smallest of Australia’s states and territories, and its infection rate per population ranks in the middle of the field. Lawmakers and their staff from across Australia will travel to Canberra on May 12 for the first regular sitting of Parliament since early March.
— INDIA CREDITS LOCKDOWN: India says it has had success in curbing coronavirus infections by imposing the world’s largest lockdown five weeks ago. The Home Ministry looked ahead to considerable relaxations in some areas when the lockdown is reviewed Sunday. India has reported more than 33,050 cases with 1,074 deaths. On Wednesday, migrants and other people stranded by the lockdown were allowed to resume their journeys by road.
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