As the day unfolded: Global COVID-19 cases surpass 1.7 million, Australian death toll at 59

That's a wrap on our live updates on the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks for joining us. Here are today's main developments:

• Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy says there is a "huge risk" if the nation lifts restrictions too quickly, as the government warns of the threat of a second and third wave of coronavirus cases
• NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has urged people not to get false hope after revealing the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since March 11, as the death toll in the state increased by one to 24.
• Two hospitals on Tasmania's north-west coast will be shut and deep cleaned as authorities race to contain a coronavirus outbreak, with 1000 hospital staff and their families required to isolate for 14 days.
• Congregations have held virtual church services to mark Easter Sunday.
• The Victorian government has extended the state of emergency for another month, as the Premier warns he will not be winding back strict stage three restrictions any time soon
• Australians will have to wait until the end of this year or beyond to restart overseas travel amid estimates the coronavirus crisis has wiped out inbound and domestic tourism worth $9 billion a month.
• In Australia, the death toll stands at 59 and there are 6300 confirmed cases.
• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has thanked medical staff and claims they saved his life as he continues his recovery from the virus at home.

Our live coverage will continue with a fresh blog in a couple of hours. Have a safe long weekend.

Photographers are documenting our changing lives as people in countries across the world grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.

In this image, captured by Getty Images' Billy H.C. Kwok, a man plays piano inside a Ming's Piano truck at a car park in Hong Kong, China.

In attempt to keep their business during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mings Piano, a music school with 12 teachers and about 200 students, has hired three trucks to deliver lessons at students' doorsteps.

You can view the gallery of photographs from around the world this week here.

It was a bizarre sight, two uniformed policemen striding across the white sands of Bronte Beach on Easter Sunday morning. Let’s just say they weren’t on an Easter egg hunt. With megaphones in hand and a COVID-19 mandate to throw their weight around they had one aim – to clear the water of surfers.

Close enough to the water’s edge to ruin his shiny shoes one officer launched into his Easter Sunday sermon. "Surfers, you must come to the beach! Surfers you must come to the beach!" Several boardriders heeded the warning. Others ignored the command.

The waves were about as good as they get and it seemed like surfers were being unfairly singled out in a number of ways. The clamp down on surfing in Sydney's east began a little over three weeks ago, Luke Kennedy writes.

Delhi: Inside the world's largest lockdown, there are no flights, no passenger trains, no taxis and few functioning industries. But one thing is remarkably abundant: cleaner air.

India is engaged in a desperate bid to "flatten the curve" of coronavirus cases before they overwhelm the creaky health system in this nation of more than 1.3 billion people.

In the meantime, the lockdown, which authorities have reportedly agreed to extend by another 10 days, is flattening something else - India's notorious air pollution. The speed of the change has surprised even experts, who say it is proof that dramatic improvements in air quality can be achieved, albeit at an enormous human and economic cost.

Days after the lockdown began on March 25, the level of particle pollution considered most harmful to human health fell by nearly 60 per cent in Delhi, India's capital, according to an analysis by experts at the nonprofit Centre for Science and Environment. Similar drops have occurred in other major Indian cities.

Read the full story here.

Jakarta: Indonesia has imposed curbs on public transport ahead of the annual exodus to home villages that marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the government said on Sunday.

About 75 million Indonesians usually stream home from bigger cities at the end of Ramadan, due this year at the end of May, but health experts have warned against a surge in cases after a slow government response masked the scale of the outbreak.

Public buses, trains, airplanes and ships will be allowed to fill only half their passenger seats, under a new regulation that also limits occupation of a private car to just half the seats, while a motorcycle may be ridden only by one person.

Read the full story here.