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Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 77 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.

Our main story. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are reported to have died from COVID-19.

And yet, we don't know the true number of virus deaths.

Experts widely agree that the 300,000 deaths from the virus is an undercount.

But there are ways to get closer to the real number. And without knowing that number,

we're only guessing at how well our disease fighting measures are really working. But first,

here's what happened today. Germany wants to Today.

Germany wants to test more people who don't show symptoms for the coronavirus.

The country's health ministry put out a proposal that would expand screening to close contacts of sick people, workers at nursing homes, and meatpacking plants, as well as schools

and restaurants where cases emerge. Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country's states have agreed

to keep contact restrictions in place until June 29th. We may get a new test of the international

air travel system in the time of coronavirus, within weeks.

Australia and New Zealand could open an air corridor between the two countries for quarantine-free

flights if guidelines that will be released in early June are approved. The group drawing up the guidelines for safe

travel are considering every stage of the journey, including how passengers move through airports

and contact tracing requirements at their destination. Travelers will have to declare they're healthy

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