Preparations are under way to use a mining camp near Darwin to quarantine Australian citizens and permanent residents evacuated from coronavirus-hit Wuhan
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government had been advised the Christmas Island facility could not properly segregate the next group of people being evacuated from Wuhan. "With that advice we will be moving to the contingency plans for overflow," Mr Morrison told reporters in Townsville on Friday.
The advice was given by the chief medical officer to a national security committee of cabinet meeting on Thursday."We will before using a mining camp facility in the Northern Territory near Darwin and we are working through the consultation phase with the local community and others about the implementation of those arrangements," he said.
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