Australian cities began easing lockdown restrictions as the country recorded a drop in community transmission of COVID-19, with only one new case reported in the last 24 hours.
"We are winning but we have not won yet," Health Minister Greg Hunt stressed.
Australia, which imposed an early shutdown of borders and businesses, has managed to reduce the number of cases and deaths.
Coronavirus testing centres have been set up across the country, with the government urging people to undergo tests regardless of whether they have symptoms.
A month after being closed for violations on social distancing rules, Bondi Beach and two neighbouring beaches in Sydney were reopened to local residents on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, New South Wales (NSW) state announced easing of stay-at-home rules.
"Two adults will be able to go and visit anybody else in their home on the basis of care, on the basis of reducing socialisation and everybody's mental health," said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, with children allowed to accompany adults on house visits.
Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, medics and residents said.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in immediate danger but still in a serious condition, his deputy said on Sunday, four days after an assassination attempt that sent shockwaves through Europe.
At least 47 people have died after continued heavy rain and flooding in northern Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday, a day after a similar number were killed in a central province.
Russian airstrikes killed at least ten people and injured many others in a recreation area just outside Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv on Sunday, local officials said.
Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced that Dubai Metro has resumed services at Onpassive, Equiti, and Mashreq stations as of Sunday May 19.
The UAE has sent a plane carrying 100 tonnes of food, medical and relief aid to help the victims of the floods and heavy rains that have recently swept Brazil.
Saif Hassan Ibrahim Karam from Sharjah Model Secondary School won third place in chemistry worldwide at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles, USA.