Some Chinese-Australians have been forced to change their Lunar New Year travel plans as the deadly coronavirus continues to spread abbydinham
James Li sits on the floor of his Altona home in Melbourne’s south-west, playing with his three-year-old daughter Grace and eight-month-old son Mason.
“We have two young kids, one is three years old, the other is only eight months we don’t want to take any risk.”The tickets were booked six months ago and his parents renovated their house to make rooms for the children with plans for an elaborate succession of parties to celebrate Lunar New Year.“My parents got the house ready, they renovated, decorated the house, they really get excited and wait for us to come but we can’t go,” he told SBS News.
“We have been fortunate so far that we have stepped up the measures with the national incident response centre, biosecurity measures. All of the planes being met. Biosecurity officers and health officers as well as the states being prepared for any outbreak if that were to occur,” Mr Hunt said.According to infectious disease experts, while human-to-human spread has been confirmed, the severity of the virus is still unknown.
The federal government upgraded its travel advice for China, Tuesday, warning Australians if they travel to Wuhan to exercise a high degree of caution and if they develop a respiratory illness to seek medical advice.
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