Coronavirus latest updates: Australia initiates emergency plan as Trump says risk to US is ‘very low’
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In Australia, the Victorian health minister Jenny Mikakos says hospitals have reported racism toward both medical staff and patients as fears of coronavirus grow.
Mikakos told reporters at the Royal Children’s hospital in Melbourne on Thursday:
OK we have sought confirmation and the plan announced by Austalia’s government today is this one, written about by my colleague Ben Doherty earlier this week.
The emergency response plans says impact of the outbreak will be determined by:
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