The Australian seafood industry, reeling from disrupted supply chains and coronavirus lockdowns, is expected to fall in value by at least $400m this year.
That has forced producers to rethink the way they get their food onto people’s plates, but the challenges ahead are daunting.
Al Jazeera’s Nicola Gage reports from Sydney, Australia.
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Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, commented on reopening of the economy, and lifting of curbs which were imposed to prevent spreading of the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease. Trump supported relaxations allowed by many US states on public life, saying ‘we have to get our country open’. He also took a dig at China over the pandemic which originated in Wuhan, saying the country should have ‘informed us if they had a problem’. Watch the full video for more.
Three states – Telangana, Punjab and Delhi – decided on Sunday not to ease the lockdown restrictions in line with the Centre’s guidelines to gradually reopen the country and reboot the economy starting Monday.
While Delhi and Punjab governments said there will be no relaxations till the lockdown ends on May 3, the K Chandrasekhar Rao government in Telangana decided to extend the complete lockdown in the state till May 7.
The Kerala government announced relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in two zones, allowing among others private vehicles movement in an odd-even basis and dine-in services at hotels from Monday. State police chief Loknath Behera said the relaxations of restrictions imposed would come into effect in the Green and Orange-B zones in the state from Monday,an official release said. Earlier, the Left government had colour-coded 14 districts of the state into four zones– Red, Green, Orange-A and Orange-B, for containing the Covid-19 pandemic. Red zone comprises Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode and Malappuram districts.
