Wuhan flight lands in Australia.....

They need to have a better system of checking passengers than just scanning them at the airport. They should have a check in quarantine system where passengers from china have to ring a hotline to report in three days later as to weather they have symptoms or not. Mandatory reporting.

The problem with the Wuhan Flu is it presents like a cold. And some people are dumb as wood. Idiots walking around saying its just a cold!

We have staff members at work who come into work with the flu. They don't want to use up their sick days for actually being sick.

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Passengers on China Eastern flight from Wuhan to Sydney to be screened for coronavirus
By Riley Stuart
Posted38 minutes ago
A plane on tarmac.
Wuhan was ordered into lockdown just hours after this plane took off.(ABC News)
A flight from the epicentre of China's deadly coronavirus outbreak has arrived in Sydney, where passengers are being screened individually for symptoms of the highly contagious bug.

Key points:
Passengers with symptoms of the virus will be taken to Westmead Hospital
It has already killed 17 people in China
And, there have been hundreds more infections
Australian authorities took no chances when China Eastern flight 749 from Wuhan touched down just after 11am EDT, stationing biosecurity officers and border security staff at the terminal to interview passengers.

Four hours after the flight took off, Chinese officials made a bombshell announcement the city of 11 million people was being locked down in a bid to contain the virus, which has already killed 17 people and put hundreds more in hospital.

Bus, subway, ferry and long-distance passenger transportation networks will be suspended from 10am local time (1pm EDT), and the airport and train stations will be closed to outgoing passengers, state TV said.

Sydney is the only Australian city with direct flights to Wuhan.

The services, which were launched in 2017, run three times a week.


One man who was at Sydney Airport to pick up his girlfriend, who was on the flight, said she was "very lucky" to have got out.

Another passenger who flew from Beijing to Sydney said the outbreak was "very scary".

"I'm very scared, I'm very worried as soon as I found out I flew back," they said.

A passenger who arrived from Shanghai said the outbreak had been handled well in China.

"I'm confident that the correct measures are being taken by the authorities ... and the risk was relatively small," he said.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, had advised him the risk of coronavirus transmission in Australia remained low, but that the "situation is evolving".

Hospitals in Wuhan are reportedly dealing with huge numbers of sick patients, and yesterday the local government issued an order for everybody to wear masks in public.

The order to shutdown Wuhan came the day before Chinese New Year.

Dr Jeremy McAnulty, the executive director of health protection at NSW Health, said the coronavirus seemed to be less infectious than the SARS outbreak that killed more than 700 people in 2003.

"At the present we believe the risk of transmission of the infection, should it occur in New South Wales is probably pretty low," he said.

"The situation is evolving from day to day there are no cases in New South Wales identified.

"But we're preparing that the health system, GPs, emergency departments and so on should cases occur in New South Wales."

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