Coronavirus LIVE Queensland updates: race to solve mystery of Blackwater death and national cabinet meets

The Prime Minister provides an update after meeting with premiers and chief ministers.

After revelations the nurse at the centre of the Rockhampton scare had also travelled to Malaysia, Deputy Premier Steven Miles says it is vital people found to have the virus tell health authorities all relevant information.

“It is incredibly important that if they contact you, you tell the truth,” he says.

He would not be drawn on the specific case.

But he says it is “incredibly disappointing” if people are not forthcoming with public health officials dealing with the pandemic and it is "Incredibly unlikely” that authorities will fail to ask about overseas travel as part of an investigation.

“Their motivations are simply to keep Queenslanders safe,” he says.

Asked about the matter, Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young says she did not “have any of the specifics because the story has changed so many times”.

That's a wrap for today's Brisbane Times coronavirus blog for the week. Stick with us over the weekend to keep up-to-date with what you need to know.

Here's a recap of today's major developments:

• Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the nation's premiers and chief ministers have liked the national cabinet so much, they're going to keep it. Ongoing monthly meetings will replace the existing COAG arrangements, even after the pandemic is over.
• A union representing the Rockhampton nurse at the centre of investigations into the Blackwater infection has come out strongly in her defence.
• Queensland's cumulative total of confirmed COVID-19 cases stands at 1058, after another day of no new cases. Six cases remain "active" while 1045 have recovered. Queensland's death toll remains at seven.
• Only one COVID-19 patient remains in Queensland hospitals. That patient is in intensive care and on a ventilator.
• Turns out people missed their sport - last night's Broncos v Eels NRL match was the code's most-watched regular season match in years.

Epidemiological modelling puts Brazil's eventual final death count somewhere between 88,300 and 125,000 by the end of winter. That could be higher than the United States, which broke 100,000 deaths yesterday.

Brazilians cannot understand how it all went so wrong. More than half the population is estimated to have complied with stay-at-home requests by governors in some states. In Sao Paulo, quarantine was declared on March 23, around the same time as Australians were ordered to stay home.

Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has taken pride in setting the anti-lockdown example. He famously dismissed the illness as “just a little flu” and has continued to flaunt medical expert guidelines by joining crowds outside his residence and on the streets, picking up small children, taking selfies with supporters and urging people to go back to work.

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Logan’s food and music festival Eats & Beats Takeaway is going virtual in a matter of hours.

As restrictions remain in place for large gatherings, people are encouraged to take part at home to share their photos and videos of their home set-ups on social media from 5pm.

Musicians will begin the performing at 6pm on the festival’s Facebook livestream. The musical line-up includes Logan favourites Zeek Power, Bam Duo, The Lyrical and Hope D.

A list of participating takeaway outlets is listed on the Facebook page and at the Eats & Beats website.

For vulnerable residents living in aged care facilities everywhere life under lockdown has been lonely, frightening and dull.

But for the residents of one Sydney retirement village, that monotony was broken in spectacular fashion on Friday with a private concert from one of Australia’s best-loved opera stars.

Under a light drizzle, 20 of the retirees living at Alan Walker Village in Carlingford looked on from their balconies and patios as Opera Australia principal soprano Jane Ede presented a selection of some of the greatest arias in the repertoire, including Musetta’s Waltz from La Boheme and the Vilya aria from The Merry Widow.

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A new five-year hospital agreement between the states and territories that will see the Commonwealth invest $131.4 billion has been signed.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the agreement, which will provide an additional $34.4 billion in funding to public hospitals from July, in a post-national cabinet press conference.

"There is also as part of our agreement a funding guarantee to all states and territories to ensure no jurisdiction is left worse off as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and guarantees the Commonwealth's funding contribution for public hospitals over the next five years," Mr Morrison said.

The agreement includes funding for immunotherapies, the Prime Minister said.

"These can cost half a million in treatment," he said.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has suggested future government stimulus will zero in on sectors most affected by the economic downturn, and may shift away from JobKeeper.

Mr Morrison said as the economy grew again, "more of the economy is less in need of those specific supports".

"But some of the sectors of the economy will need them for longer," the Prime Minister said.

"Whether that's in the measures you're talking about or in other measures, that's an option for the government to consider."

Mr Morrison emphasised that JobKeeper was not the only economic support the federal government was funding.

"We will target the best measures to do the job that we need it to do and this is to support people, staying in jobs, and getting back into jobs," he said.