APS warned to stay home as US government bans China travel

Friday, 31 January 2020

The US has gone all in:

In little, and soon to be rather ill, Straya, you’ve just got to stay home if you feel a bit off. From the Dept of Defence to staff today:

The Government is closely monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus. The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was first detected in Wuhan, China. We are writing to you with an update on the Defence response to the current situation.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.