The Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Nick Coatsworth, has said Australia must increase numbers of social gatherings slowly, during a national update on the coronavirus outbreak. It follows comments from the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, during a Senate Inquiry Select Committee on COVID-19 about how the government might begin easing social distancing measures and when international travel could return.

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