BREAKING: A Brisbane man is being tested for a new, deadly strain of coronavirus after returning from China. 9News
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young told reporters the man had recently visited family in the city of Wuhan, the same region in China where the coronavirus broke out in December last year.The results of his test would be known in a couple of days, Dr Young said.
Travellers wear face masks as they walk outside of the Beijing Railway Station. China has reported a sharp rise in the number of people infected with a new coronavirus, including the first cases in the capital. Zhong Nanshan, head of the team set up by China's National Health Commission to investigate the pneumonia-like virus, said that at least two cases had been spread from person to person and medical staff had also been infected.
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