Coronavirus Australia live updates: Two Border Force officers test positive

Two Australian Border Force officers have tested positive for coronavirus. One of the officers is located in Queensland while the other is from New South Wales.

Two Australian Border Force officers have tested positive for coronavirus. One of the officers is located in Queensland while the other is from New South Wales.

Contact tracing is being conducted for both officers with any other staff who came into close contact being notified.

It comes as Kmart will cut opening hours across all stores to help staff cope with the coronavirus pandemic. All Australian stores will see their opening hours scaled back to help staff properly clean at night and to keep up with a barrage of online orders. The announcement came just hours after two staff at a Melbourne store tested positive for coronavirus.

Australia has recorded more than 4500 cases of coronavirus with 19 deaths.

As of Tuesday afternoon there were 2032 in NSW, 917 in Victoria, 743 in Queensland, 337 in South Australia, 364 in Western Australia, 69 in Tasmania, 80 in the Australian Capital Territory and 15 in the Northern Territory.

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Globally, there have been nearly 740,000 cases of the disease recorded with more than 35,000 deaths. The US and Europe are now the epicentre of the outbreak, which began in mainland China in late December 2019.

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