Next group of Australians evacuated from coronavirus ground zero Wuhan will be sent to MINES near Darwin to keep them isolated from Christmas Island evacuees
Preparations under way to use mining camp to temporarily house evacuees
Christmas Island facility cannot properly segregate the next group of people
Government guaranteed there would be no health risk to the general public
Preparations are under way to use a mining camp near Darwin to temporarily house people evacuated from coronavirus-hit Wuhan.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government had been advised the Christmas Island facility could not properly segregate the next group of people being evacuated from Wuhan.
'With that advice we will be moving to the contingency plans for overflow,' Mr Morrison told reporters in Townsville on Friday.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government had been advised the Christmas Island facility could not properly segregate the next group of people being evacuated from Wuhan
Preparations are under way to use a mining camp near Darwin (stock image) to temporarily house people evacuated from coronavirus-hit Wuhan
The advice was given by the chief medical officer to a national security committee of cabinet meeting on Thursday.
Mr Morrison said he had spoken with the Northern Territory's chief minister Michael Gunner.
'We will before using a mining camp facility in the Northern Territory near Darwin and we are working through the consultation phase with the local community and others about the implementation of those arrangements,' he said.
'My advice is that is progressing extremely well and we will be able to continue to go down the path of the planning for the second assisted departure flight.'
Earlier Mr Gunner said he had been guaranteed there would be no health risk to the general public.
'There will be no confirmed cases of the virus amongst the evacuees,' he said.
'They are not sick. They will be isolated at the site purely as a precaution only.'
AUSTRALIANS WITH THE CORONAVIRUS
NEW SOUTH WALES: 4
January 25
Three men aged 43, 53, and 35 who had recently travelled to China are confirmed to have contracted the disease.
Two flew in from Wuhan while the other arrived in Sydney from Shenzhen, south China.
They are being treated in isolation at Westmead Hospital and are in stable condition.
January 27
A 21-year-old woman is identified as the fourth person to test positive for the illness in NSW.
The woman, a student at UNSW, flew into Sydney International Airport on flight MU749 on January 23 and presented to the emergency department 24 hours later after developing flu-like symptoms.
She is being treated in isolation at Westmead Hospital.
VICTORIA: 4
January 25
A Chinese national aged in his 50s becomes the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Australia.
The man flew to Melbourne on China Southern flight CZ321 from Wuhan via Guangzhou on January 19.
He is now in quarantined isolation at Monash Hospital in Clayton in Melbourne's east.
January 29
A Victorian man in his 60s is diagnosed with the coronavirus.
He became unwell on January 23 - two days after returning from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak.
The man was confirmed as positive on January 29 and was subsequently seen by doctors at the Monash Medical Centre. He was assessed as being well enough to stay at home.
January 30
A woman in her 40s is found to have coronavirus.
She was visiting from China and mostly spent time with her family.
She is being treated at Royal Melbourne Hospital.
February 1
A woman in her 20s in Melbourne is found to have the virus
QUEENSLAND: 5
January 29
Queensland confirms its first case after a 44-year-old Chinese national wass diagnosed with the virus.
He is being treated at Gold Coast University Hospital.
January 30
A 42-year-old Chinese woman who was travelling in the same Wuhan tour group as the 44-year-old man tests positive. She is in Gold Coast University Hospital in stable condition.
February 4
An eight-year-old boy has been diagnosed coronavirus. He is also from the tour group where the other Queensland cases came from
February 5
The case was found in a 37-year-old man, who was a member of a group of nine Chinese tourists in quarantine on the Gold Coast
February 6
A 37-year-old woman has been diagnosed with coronavirus from the same travel group that flew to Queensland from Melbourne on January 27
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 2
February 1
A Chinese couple in their 60s who arrived in Adelaide from Wuhan to visit relatives are confirmed to have coronavirus.
CHINA: 2
January 30
Two Australians have been confirmed as having the virus in Wuhan itself. Australia has raised the travel alert level to 'do not travel' for the city of Wuhan - the epicentre of the outbreak - and for the entire Hubei province.
Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy says unless people have contact with someone who is unwell and has come from that part of China, there is no need for current concern.
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