KEY MEASURES FROM NATIONAL CABINET:
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HEALTH
* 6765 COVID-19 cases in total, with 1000 active cases
* 93 deaths
* 3.5 million COVIDSafe app downloads, but more needed
AGED CARE
* $205 million extra for facilities to safely allow visiting ($900 per occupied bed support payment in cities, $1350 for facilities outside cities)
* 23 aged care facilities have had an outbreak, 15 have cleared it
* Two or three cases on average in affected facilities
SOCIAL AND BUSINESS RESTRICTIONS
* National cabinet to meet on Tuesday and Friday next week, with the aim of making an announcement on May 8 about lifting baseline restrictions
* All of the restrictions will be reviewed, from pub visits to shopping centre operation
* National principles agreed for sport and recreation
* States and territories to decide on how and when major sporting codes resume operations
ECONOMY
* Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy provided advice to national leaders
* More than 1.5 million on JobSeeker, with 900,000 claims processed in the past six weeks
* Unemployment rate due to rise to 10 per cent "and potentially beyond"
* 650,000 businesses have registered for JobKeeper
* 950,000 applications to access superannuation worth $7.9 billion in claims
* More than 340,000 businesses have received a cashflow boost worth over $6 billion
* 6.8 million welfare and pension recipients have been given a $750 payment (total $5.1 billion paid), with a further payment to be made in July
* A fall in net overseas migration by 30 per cent is expected this financial year (on 2018/19 levels) and 85 per cent drop in 2021/22.
Australian Associated Press
