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Canberra gets the jump on WHO, mobilises against pandemic
Canberra has changed its strategy from holding the infection offshore with travel bans, to fighting it here.
The AFR ViewEditorialAustralia has now activated its emergency response plan to deal with COVID-19. Scott Morrison has not waited for the World Health Organisation to formally declare pandemic conditions – where multiple epidemics are erupting globally – to use all the federal and state governments’ joint powers and resources to fight a virus that has now taken 2800 lives worldwide.
Scott Morrison announces the emergency plan yesterday. AAP
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