Topic: Scott Morrison

Australia said Thursday it will suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and create a path to permanent residency for citizens from the former British colony with temporary visas in response to a draconian national

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday announced the country is facing a malicious cyber attack from a "state-based" actor targeting government departments and other businesses.

Countries in Oceania moved to ease coronavirus restrictions on Monday as China's city of Wuhan announced a new cluster of infections, raising worries of a resurgence at ground zero of the pandemic.

There are no major changes coming to Britain's current coronavirus lockdown orders anytime soon, a government official said Friday as health officials reported 626 more deaths from COVID-19.

Boeing announced Tuesday has presented its first unmanned aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force.

"The COVID-19 pandemic is not finished," emergency committee member Dr. Didier Houssin said, adding that there is still a lack of vaccines and approved therapies.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters his government will continue pushing for an independent review of the virus' origins and China's early handling of the outbreak.

More than 1 million people worldwide have been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus but the actual number could be as high as 10 million, said Australia's top doctor on Friday.

The coronavirus pandemic is stretching nations' healthcare systems to capacity and could put non-COVID-19 patients at risk, the World Health Organization said in an update Monday.

The original epicenter of the coronavirus, mainland China, is "basically blocked," according to an official as the outbreak continues to increase worldwide with more than 30,000 deaths.

The United Nations warned the world is losing its battle with the coronavirus as the number of infections exponentially increases and the global caseload soared past 500,000 Friday.

China reported no new local infections of COVID-19 in the original epicenter of Hubei province for a fifth consecutive day Monday as the World Health Organization warned its spread was accelerating elsewhere.

Italy, the new epicenter of coronavirus, reported 651 more deaths Sunday as China, where the outbreak began, reported six deaths, all imported from another country.

Italy's death toll from the coronavirus hit 3,405 on Thursday, surpassing the total number of deaths reported in the outbreak's epicenter in China, Italian health officials said.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton on Friday became the latest major government officials to test positive for the coronavirus.