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School holidays could be extended as Australia considers increasingly drastic measures to contain the coronavirus after it was declared a global pandemic.
The nation now has more than 120 confirmed cases and the World Health...
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Coronavirus has caused an unprecedented surge in customers contacting companies with virus-related concerns, bogging down company phone lines for hours.
Contact centre expert Drew Le Grand from CDM Direct...
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The World Health Organisation has declared the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic, expressing alarm both about mounting infections and slow government responses.
But the organisation says it's not too late for countries...
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Victoria now has 21 coronavirus cases after three more people tested positive overnight, including a man who worked at a Melbourne school while infectious.
One case is a man in his 50s who returned to Melbourne from Seattle...
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The Northern Territory's health authority says it is ready to deal with a coronavirus outbreak among tens of thousands of Aboriginal people living in remote areas with limited medical resources.
There are no known cases...
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Victorians have been told all their schools may be closed and entire sectors forced to work from home when the coronavirus reaches a pandemic phase.
Premier Daniel Andrews has warned the measures are laid out in the state's...
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With more than half Australia's 100 coronavirus patients already recovered, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says it's unlikely anyone would be infected a second time.
Mr Hunt says neither will it be necessary to introduce...
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THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS:
DEATHS/INFECTIONS
* More than 111,600 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and more than 3800 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
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Tasmania has its first case of the coronavirus which has spread from China around the globe and has a growing death toll.
A 40 year old man tested positive after arriving in Launceston having travelled from Iran and is now...
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The nation's health ministers will gather in Melbourne on Friday, to discuss Australia's response to coronavirus.
The Federal Government has effectively declared coronavirus a pandemic, well before other countries, allowing...
