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Frank Chung is a senior journalist at news.com.au covering topics including local and international breaking news, politics, culture, media and technology. In his previous role as finance editor he wrote about economics, retail, industrial relations, small business, consumer affairs and real estate.

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ACT’s first coronavirus case confirmed

Every state and territory has now been hit by the coronavirus cases, after the ACT reported its first confirmed case this morning.

Health Problems

World’s new coronavirus epicentre

The coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China. But now Europe has been declared the new epicentre of the pandemic.

UPDATEDVIC Crime

Police at the scene in Coppin st Hawthorn where orange plastic has been placed around a car where a body was found. Police shooting/homicide in the eastern suburbs. ThursdayMarch12, 2020. Picture: David Crosling

‘Mental health flag’: Stabbing rampage

Police have revealed details about the man who killed two people and left another woman critically injured in a stabbing rampage in Melbourne overnight.

Pets

‘No evidence pets can spread virus’

Vets have urged pet owners to remain calm, saying there is still no evidence of human-to-animal transmission of the disease, despite reports.

Health Problems

VENICE, ITALY - MARCH 10: A passenger wearing a protective mask is seen on the train leaving the Venice Santa Lucia Station to Rome on March 10, 2020 in Venice, Italy. The Italian Government has taken the unprecedented measure of a nationwide lockdown in an effort to fight the world's second-most deadly coronavirus outbreak outside of China. The movements in and out are allowed only for work and health reasons proven by a medical certificate. The justifications for the movements needs to be certified with a self-declaration by filling in forms provided by the police forces in charge of the checks. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

‘Australia was Italy two weeks ago’

As the coronavirus death toll in Italy skyrockets to 631, Australia now has the same number of confirmed infections as the hard-hit country just two weeks ago.

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BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 07: A female Chinese volunteer from Blue Sky Rescue wears a protective suit before fumigating and disinfecting an area of a local bus station on March 7, 2020 in Beijing, China. The fumigation work, which is usually done by male volunteers, was done by a group of female volunteers in advance of International Women's Day. Blue Sky Rescue, which is China's largest non-profit rescue NGO, is said to have over 30,000 members and trained to assist in emergencies and natural disasters. The number of cases of the deadly new coronavirus COVID-19 being treated in China dropped to below 21,000 in mainland China Sunday, in what the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency last month. China continued to lock down the city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus, in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease. Officials in Beijing have put in place a mandatory 14 day quarantine for all people returning to the capital from other places in China and countries with a large number of cases like South Korea and Japan. The number of those who have died from the virus in China climbed to over 3100 on Sunday, mostly in Hubei province, and cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, Iran, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and several others. The World Health Organization has warned all governments to be on alert and raised concerns over a possible pandemic. Some countries, including the United States, have put restrictions on Chinese travellers entering and advised their citizens against travel to China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Virus will ‘get worse, very quickly’

Australian hospitals could be overwhelmed by thousands of coronavirus cases within weeks, amid growing calls to ban public gatherings.

Health Problems

What should I do if I’m sick?

Doctors are “extremely pissed off” at the government’s coronavirus response as patients slam testing “shambles”. Here’s what you should do.

Technology

‘Two thirds of world could be infected’

A leading public health expert has warned that up to 60 per cent of the world’s population could become infected by coronavirus, killing 45 million.

Australian Economy

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Thursday, March 5, 2020, Tennessee's Department of Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey confirmed the state's first case of the new coronavirus. (NIAID-RML via AP)

‘Virus shows we need more immigration’

An urban planning expert has called for more migrants, not less, as “hysteria” over coronavirus fuels anti-immigration sentiment.

Pets

Dog has ‘low-level’ coronavirus infection

Hong Kong authorities have confirmed a coronavirus patient’s pet dog has a “low-level infection” saying it is “likely to be a case of human-to-animal transmission”.

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