Don’t get carried away with online rumours - the official advice on how to protect yourself from the coronavirus is pretty straightforward.
if you're planning on travelling. As of February 2, the government is warning Australians not to travel to China, where the coronavirus originated.
As with any time you experience flu-like symptoms, you should also try to avoid passing the illness on to other people. That means washing your hands regularly, staying home and avoiding public transport, covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze , and wearing a surgical mask if you absolutely must go out.
That's lower than the fatality rate for the SARS coronavirus outbreak in 2002-3, which saw 8,098 cases resulting in 774 deaths . "The concern is that it's continuing to grow in China, and several experts are saying it's likely to become a pandemic. But it doesn't necessarily have to become a pandemic -- it didn't with SARS -- so we still need to focus on measures that will delay or prevent its spread in Australia."If the coronavirus was to become a pandemic , Professor MacIntyre warns that the consequences will be more severe.
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