Sydney cruise locked down on virus fear (updated)

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Throw open the borders! Or not:

A passenger aboard a cruise ship docked in Sydney Harbour is being tested for possible coronavirus.

The Australian understands that NSW Health are assessing a Singaporean woman who fell ill with respiratory illness.

The cruise ship arrived in Sydney this morning having believed to be at other Australian ports after travelling from New Zealand.

If she is positive, let’s hope we do a better job than Japan where 218 out of 713 passengers are infected in a quarantined ship of the damned.

Even the bloke who was sent on board to test passengers now has it.

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Update: Passengers have been allowed to leave the Sydney vessel. It is unclear if patient has COVID-19.

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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.