Re: Chinese Coronavirus
About 180 Australians have landed in Darwin for a second 14-day quarantine period after being evacuated from the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship.
The plane landed just hours before Japanese public broadcaster NHK announced two passengers who had been aboard the cruise ship had died.
The passengers, who were confined to the ship to contain a coronavirus outbreak which infected at least 612 people, left Japan in the early hours of Thursday morning on an Australian Government-chartered evacuation flight.
They will be housed at the Howard Springs quarantine facility, which is currently home to 266 evacuees who were evacuated from Wuhan in China just over a week ago.
Health officials say the new group, which includes a considerable number of elderly people, will be separated from the Wuhan evacuees and undergo daily health checks.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-...ntine/11981394