Coronavirus cases worldwide have soared again today to 7186 with deaths at 169. Nearly all of it in China.
Earlier this week we had a Coalition flunkie desperately running from a “fake” health warning:
This media release is 100% FAKE!!! FAKE!!! FAKE!!! I don’t normally like to give any credence to ppl who seek to malign our community but wanted to make things clear this time.
To get latest updates go to the Queensland Health website & FB page. Any questions call 13HEALTH. pic.twitter.com/mIW2XVKTH7
— Duncan Pegg MP (@DuncanPeggMP) January 27, 2020
Now it appears that fake warnings are the best kind, via News:
Diners at a Melbourne restaurant may have been exposed to coronavirus and have been urged to be aware of symptoms.
There have now been two confirmed cases of coronavirus in Victoria and seven across Australia.
The latest patient is a man in his 60s who travelled to Wuhan City in China and is now being isolated while he recovers.
Victoria’s chief health officer Dr Brett Sutton said the man became sick on January 23, two days after returning from China and had remained isolated except for attending dinner with his family on Australia Day.
The man ate at The House of Delight restaurant in Glen Waverley in Melbourne’s southeast with five family members between 5.30pm and 7pm.
Expect Scotty from Marketing to be the last to shut the gate, yesterday from Crikey:
The stakes are very high: the Australian international education market was worth $35.2 billion in 2018-2019.
The census date is the date after which students are liable to start paying fees, when their grades will be recorded and the course will remain on their transcripts. If students withdraw before this, they are not liable to pay any fees, no grades are recorded and the course is removed from their transcripts.
Students are also entitled to get any deposits back if they withdraw before census date; most universities require one term’s worth of fees from international students.
Census dates vary by institution and course, but are usually around March 31 for domestic students. For international students, the date is often the start date of the course.
Universities are about to either suffer a catastrophic blow to revenue or turn into coronavirus petrie dishes.
