Queensland health authorities have confirmed a man is being tested for coronavirus in Brisbane.
“We’ve got one gentleman who we’re following at the moment, who has travelled from the area around Wuhan and has developed a respiratory illness, but he is recovering at home,” the state’s Chief Health Officer, Jeanette Young, said.Dr Young said they had only done general tests for coronavirus, because they were yet to receive the updated “primers” with the details of the specific virus from the World Health Organisation.
“There are a lot of Chinese who do travel between Australia and China, particularly as we head into the Chinese New Year period. A man walks past a notice for passengers from Wuhan, China, at a quarantine station in Japan's Narita Airport.“There are three flights a week that fly into Sydney [direct from Wuhan] and [health authorities] are looking at processes to meet those planes,” she said.
"No international travellers have yet been confirmed as having this coronavirus in Australia and we already have well-established existing biosecurity measures at the border," he said.Four people have died in China after contracting the virus, which appears to have been spread by animals at livestock markets before jumping to humans.
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