Is coronavirus loose Downunder?

Thursday, 30 January 2020

Via Domain come more cases:

Australian residents trapped in the epicentre of the coronavirus in China are considering rejecting the federal government’s offer to evacuate them to Christmas Island, as Qantas prepares for an emergency flight into Wuhan.

Queensland authorities said on Wednesday night that a Chinese man had tested positive for the virus and had been isolated in the Gold Coast University Hospital. The 44-year-old man is from the city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, and is in a stable condition.

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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.