Australia's chief medical officer Professor Brendan Murphy says precautions are being taken at Sydney airport, where three direct flights from Wuhan arrive each week. The new coronvirus has so far killed at least three people and infected hundreds.
Each of these flights will now be met by biosecurity staff, who will hand out information pamphlets and ask passengers if they are experiencing symptoms such as fever, cough, breathlessness and sore throat.
that health workers had been infected and that cases of the virus had been recorded in Beijing and Guangdong province. Professor Murphy said he was working with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on potentially updating travel advice to warn Australians travelling to Wuhan to "avoid markets with live animals".
At least half a dozen countries in Asia have begun screening programs, and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
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