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There was the first standard human to human spread with a clear source (guy who travelled from Iran gives it to his sister) AND what appears to be the first case of community spread. A healthcare worker has fallen ill with no clear source. He was in direct contact with patients and now he's in the ICU.
Coronavirus spreads on Australian soil for the first time
There are now two cases of human-to-human transmission of coronavirus in Australia, one being a health worker in western Sydney who has had direct contact with patients.
www.abc.net.au
There's some really disingenuous stuff from a professor stating that close contact is unlikely to lead to infection in this article, idk if it's taken out of context, but wut.
Tasmania's got Wu Flu now too, thank u Iran.
Man travelled from Iran to Malaysia, Melbourne before testing positive for coronavirus in Tasmania
A man has tested positive for coronavirus after travelling from Iran to Launceston via Malaysia and Melbourne, Tasmanian authorities confirm.
www.abc.net.au
Also, and this is from an article that's a few days old now, but the Queensland health authority have stated that they aren't worried about contact tracing for the beautician who flew in on Monday and came down with the sickness on a Thursday.
Things are still being handled better now that WHO's dumber advice is being ignored, but this doesn't seem like enough precaution. This sort of logic's been around since the first cases from China came in, and it just seems like a missed case waiting to happen.
Up to 40 possibly exposed to coronavirus at Gold Coast beauty salon
Queensland's chief health officer says authorities want to speak to up to 40 people who had contact with a Gold Coast beautician who tested positive to coronavirus after a trip to Iran, as she warns the state is heading towards an epidemic.
"The woman was in good health when she flew into Australia, then to the Gold Coast, on Monday. She only began showing signs of illness on Thursday. We've got no concerns about her flight," Dr Young said. "We've got no concerns about that first day, it's only on Thursday when she developed symptoms."
There was also something similar in one of the live updates regarding one of the Victoria cases. They're at least contact tracing the flight, but only because she developed symptoms within 24 hours.
Coronavirus update: Expert warns further COVID-19 cases 'inevitable' as Australia numbers pass 30
As the coronavirus outbreak spreads, Australia braces for more cases after arrivals from Iran test positive and an expert warns of the inevitability of more cases: Here's the latest on the COVID-19 outbreak.
'"It's really only very close contact for a relatively prolonged period of time that puts someone at risk and it was at the very beginning of this case's illness and so I think it's unlikely that many people on that flight will be at risk," Dr Sutton said.'
As far as more general updates for straya go, schools in NSW are being told to cancel international travel, any health workers who return from overseas are being asked to stay home from work for two weeks, the travel warning increased for Italy, but travel isn't banned like Iran and China are. SA is proposing easier enforcement of quarantine for the potentially infected and Queensland is planning to double or triple their number of hospital beds. It's feeling a lot more like a happening now. I'll add some links for this tomorrow when archive.li's not shidding itself.
