Summary

• The global death toll from coronavirus has passed 403,000 and there are more than 7 million known cases of infection, according to Johns Hopkins University.
• The US economy ended its longest expansion in history in February and entered recession as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, officials say.
• Of the 61 coronavirus cases confirmed in Australia in the past week, about 70 per cent were in returned travellers from overseas.
• New York City gradually began reopening on Monday in a turning point in the three-month-long crisis.
• Australia's fee-free childcare will end on July 12, at which point the system will be transitioning back to the subsidy model.