Six passengers who landed at Sydney Airport from China today have been sent for coronavirus tests. 9News
"As we've learned, this disease can have even mild presentation, so as not miss any cases at all we're taking this precautionary approach.""There is no evidence of transmission outside acquisition, either through contact to a case from China, or a contact of a contact with confirmed disease which may have been contracted outside China," she said.
While they told health staff they "self isolated", health bosses later re-interviewed them and discovered one of them had actually had symptoms on the flight."What we'd like them to do is phone our communicable disease phoneline. I'm also in the process of setting up a email address," she said. A total of 243 Australians, including 89 children and two infants, are aboard the Qantas flight, with 14 cabin crew and four pilots for the nine hour journey.
The entire upper deck of the 747 is reserved for the Qantas crew, with exposure between staff and passengers to be limited. "We have given a week to try to get back all the Australians that are in Shanghai and are in Beijing," he said. "We expect it won't continue for long, in that the number of flights has already significantly decreased ... but there will still be Queenslanders and permanent residents coming home."
With Chinese tourists locked out across Queensland, economic costs are also mounting, with $100 million in cancellations in the past month alone.In the far north, visitor numbers were down up to 70 per cent in January, with the same expected this month.The final economic coast could be $2 billion.FIRST CORONA DEATH OUTSIDE OF CHINA
At least another 171 cases have been reported in more than two dozen other countries and regions, including the US, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Britain.
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