* A man from Sydney's eastern suburbs has been diagnosed with COVID-19 but authorities are unsure where he picked up the virus.

* NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the man in his 50s had not recently travelled overseas or interstate and does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or health role.

* The man's positive result was recorded on Wednesday morning and NSW Health believes he has been infectious since last Friday.

* The pause in flights out of India has dramatically halted the rate of positive COVID-19 cases in quarantine in Australia.

* Health Minister Greg Hunt said the pause was being used to address the challenge of a high case load putting pressure on quarantine facilities.

* Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied the government's response was racist as the government continues to back away from its earlier jail threats.

* Labor leader Anthony Albanese said the government shifted from a late-night announcement of the penalties last week to ruling out enforcing the law days later.

* A 73-year-old Australian stuck in India has asked the Federal Court to overturn Mr Hunt's ban on citizens returning from the COVID-ravaged country.

* A Victorian public servant in charge of infection control at the state's quarantine hotels has been stood down after they reportedly committed multiple compliance breaches.

* Western Australia is closer to further easing coronavirus restrictions as the state government looks to extend its emergency powers until 2022.

* No new local cases were recorded in WA for a fourth straight day after a hotel security guard and his two housemates tested positive at the weekend.

* A federal government senator cast doubt on Mr Morrison's promise to expand the Northern Territory's Howard Springs quarantine centre.

SPORT:

* Australia's IPL contingent will be evacuated en masse from India to either the Maldives or Sri Lanka as they wait for the lifting of a travel ban to return home.

* Batting great Michael Hussey is the only Australian among the group of 38 to have tested positive to COVID-19.

AUSTRALIAN VACCINATION NUMBERS:

* There have been 2,396,314 doses administered in the national COVID-19 vaccination rollout up to Tuesday, including 79,345 in the previous 24 hours.

* Of the total, 1,538,213 have been administered by the Commonwealth (an increase of 54,814 in the previous 24 hours).

* 1,294,713 have been issued in primary care (+49,596) and 243,500 in aged and disability facilities (+5218).

* 858,101 have been administered by the states and territories, including 24,531 in the previous 24 hours.

* 230,404 have been administered in Victoria (+10,271), 219,594 in NSW (+4588), 149,885 in Queensland (+2669), 105,415 in Western Australia (+2861), 63,790 in South Australia (+1696), 40,885 in Tasmania (+1149), 30,733 in the ACT (+722) and 17,395 in the NT (+575).

AUSTRALIAN CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS:

* Australia reported one new locally acquired virus case on Wednesday, with the infection detected in NSW. There were 13 new overseas-acquired cases: 10 in NSW, two in WA, and one in SA.

* The national death toll is 910: Victoria 820, NSW 56, Tasmania 13, WA 9, Queensland 7, SA 4, ACT 3 (Two Queensland residents who died in NSW have been included in the official tolls of both states).

GLOBAL CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS:

* Cases: at least 154,366,000

* Deaths: at least 3,227,000

* Recovered: at least 90,946,000.

Data current as of 1730 AEST on May 5, taking in federal and state/territory government updates and Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre figures.

Australian Associated Press