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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.

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Australia 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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