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Natalie BrownLifestyle reporter

Natalie graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from Queensland’s University of Technology before becoming the youngest member of the news.com.au team. She spent her university days interning at Vogue and Brisbane’s Style magazine and worked as an editorial assistant and contributor at digital publication for young women, WinWin magazine. Her career so far has been spent covering everything from breaking news, US politics and a certain global pandemic to the revival of Tasty Toobs and which type of avocado truly reigns supreme.

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Recently arrived overseas travellers get off their bus and wait to check in at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Travellers who arrive into the country today from overseas are being sent straight to makeshift quarantine facilities across Australia. Travellers will spend 14 days of quarantine in state-funded hotel rooms, with doors guarded by state police, defence personnel or private security guards.A shutdown of non-essential services is in effect Australia wide in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. (AAP Image/Scott Barbour) NO ARCHIVING

What stage 3 restrictions mean

Victoria has introduced “critically important” stage three restrictions to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what that actually means.

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Cruise ship passengers disembark from the Princess Cruises owned Ruby Princess at Circular Quay in Sydney, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

When cruise virus cases will surge

An expert has predicted the dates when a surge in COVID-19 cases is likely because of deadly mistake, and it will be in just a few days time.

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Covid-19 test kits are prepared at the Genetworx clinical lab Wednesday March 25 , 2020, in Glen Allen, Va. Five thousand kits are being flown to Florida for a drive through coronavirus testing site. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

How the virus finger prick test works

Health Minister Greg Hunt on Tuesday announced new finger-prick virus tests will soon be rolled out in GP clinics around Australia. Here’s how they work.

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TOPSHOT - Medical staff treat a COVID-19 coronavirus patient at a hospital in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on March 19, 2020. - China on March 19 reported no new domestic cases of the coronavirus for the first time since it started recording them in January, but recorded a spike in infections from abroad. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

‘Patient zero’ at Wuhan market identified

“Patient zero” at the Wuhan seafood market central to the coronavirus outbreak has been identified as a 57-year-old seafood merchant.

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Victoria Police will use FaceTime to check on people who are meant to be self-isolating. Picture: Victoria Police

FaceTime used to check returned Aussies

As lockdown measures tighten, Victoria Police are checking in on returned travellers via FaceTime to ensure they’re following self-isolation rules.

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Australian Economy

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 24: Peopler queue to enter Centrelink on March 24, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Non-essential travel has been banned in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Australia while venues such as bars, clubs, nightclubs, cinemas, gyms and restaurants, along with anywhere people remain static are now closed. Schools are currently open but parents have the option to keep children at home if they wish. There are now 1887 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia and the death toll now stands at eight. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

How to apply for the Jobseeker Payment

If you’ve been stood down or lost your job amid Australia’s coronavirus crisis, you’re not alone. Here’s what you need to do to get assistance.

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A SA Pathology nurse tests a patient at the new drive through clinic at Hampstead Rehabilition Clinic, March 24, 2020. (Photo: AAP/Brenton Edwards)

When people are most infectious

New research shows people infected with COVID-19 are most infectious in the first week of symptoms, partly explaining the speed of the virus’s spread.

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The confirmed coronavirus cases in each of Australia's states. Source: Australian Medical Association

Dramatic rise in virus cases ‘good news’

Deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly has said that the rise in Australia’s COVID-19 cases is “good news”, for one particular reason.

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NSW & ACT Crime

A man has been charged for a prank that involved coughing on a cop and telling them he had coronavirus. Picture: Supplied

NSW man charged for coughing prank

A Coffs Harbour man has been charged over a “prank” that involved deliberately coughing on a police officer while pretending to be infected with coronavirus.

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Three women walk together wearing protective face masks in Sydney, Monday, March 16, 2020. (AAP Image/James Gourley) NO ARCHIVING

How long virus can survive outside body

Some of the world’s top virus experts have worked out how long COVID-19 can survive outside of the body.

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