New State Director of Health (right) and Chief Medical Officer announced 171 confirmed cases
Two more elderly Australian women have been killed by the new coronavirus, which has killed five Australians.
The health department last night confirmed that two more people died of the COVID-19 virus, one of whom was a 70-year-old woman from britain who arrived in sydney by air on friday, and the other was a resident of a live a retired life hospital in the north-west of sydney, where two elderly people had died of the virus as a result of neocrown pneumonia, a 77-year-old australian who withdrew from the diamond princess cruise ship and returned to western australia for quarantine treatment.
At the same time, the state declared a state of emergency for the whole state this morning of south australia declared a state of public health emergency yesterday, and the capital territory declared a state of public health emergency this morning, following an overnight surge of 14 new crown pneumonia cases, bringing the number of confirmed cases nationwide to 313 this morning.
By this morning, the number of infected COVID-19 patients diagnosed in each state was still the highest in New State, with 134 patients ,71 in Virginia ,61 in Queensland ,20 in South Australia ,17 in Western Australia ,7 inzhou ,2 in Capital Territory and 1 in Northern Territory.
New state diagnosed new crown pneumonia 171
Meanwhile, news conferences held at 3 p.m. this afternoon by Haze (Brad Hazzard), head of the New State Health Department, and Chant (Kerry Chant), chief medical officer, revealed that from 10 p.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. today ,37 patients with new crown pneumonia were diagnosed in the New State, with a cumulative total of 171 confirmed cases, plus 9 new confirmed cases to 29 in South Australia this afternoon and 7 to 68 in Queensland, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 366.
Number of newly diagnosed pneumonia nationwide by Monday night
In a news conference today, Director Harada also warned that the number of confirmed patients will "increase dramatically" in the coming weeks.
Prime Minister Morrison (Scott Morrison) yesterday announced a 14-day quarantine a 14-day quarantine on all people entering the country, including australian citizen,, comes into effect today and anyone who refuses to enforce the 14-day self-imposed quarantine will face fines arrest, state police and possibly jail.
However, despite pressure from some medical experts and parents to close schools and universities immediately to prevent the spread of the epidemic, Morrison announced yesterday afternoon after the cabinet meeting on especially safe and epidemic prevention that he decided not to close schools and universities, but asked students to maintain a "community distance" of 1.5 meters on campus. He said the closure of primary and secondary schools had done more harm than good in preventing the spread of the epidemic.
But the states and universities will take their own epidemic prevention measures to protect the safety of students and staff.
National health minister and directors will hold joint meetings in Canberra today and tomorrow to discuss further measures to prevent the spread of the new crown virus, including how to strengthen the protection of live a retired life residents and school children.
As of now, most schools across the country remain open, but the state`s chief medical officer, Sutton (Brett Sutton), says there is "really a lot of uncertainty" about whether schools are closed, and Governor Andrews said last week that if the epidemic deteriorates further, extreme measures will have to be taken to close schools.
"The state of emergency is not a state of panic ," said Prime Minister Morrison and other senior minister, who this morning sought to dispel national panic, of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. "
"The state of emergency simply gives states government special authority to help control the spread of an epidemic. "
"The governor of the states discussed the issue yesterday and they will use all their power to contain the spread of the disease. "
The prime minister and a number of minister also urged shoppers to stop panic sex rush, while supermarkets had just announced specific time slots for older and disabled people to shop.
