Since the Wuhan coronavirus was first brought to the public’s attention, Australian government health authorities including the nation’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, have consistently told members of the public that there was no need for “general concern”.
Since the controversial last flight out of Wuhan to Sydney on Thursday, just hours before Beijing started the lockdown of the city of 11 million people, Australia now has several cases of its own and the number of infected around the globe has more than tripled.
Unsurprisingly as the number of infected continues to drastically escalate, some members of the public aren’t heeding the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’...
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