Benny queen man is being quarantined on christmas island. (Photo by Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The majority of Australians sent from China to Christmas Island have spent half of the 14-day quarantine period a week after the emergency evacuation of Wuhan under the new pandemic, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
This has spurred new logistics training, with plans to send them home in full force, coordinated by christmas island`s government, health and civilian staff.
The first flight to leave wuhan by qantas is expected to be allowed home next monday. They will board the bus and follow the path of dense forest to the small airport on Christmas Island. The vehicles will move slowly to avoid the world-famous red crabs and their larger "close relatives ", who have the right of way on Christmas Island.
Unlike arriving on Christmas Island, evacuees will not need to wear a mask because they will be declared free of infection.
Wayne Binney, a man from Queensland, said removing the mask was the first thing he couldn`t wait to do. "Masks are a big problem, and wearing them all the time can feel like a constraint. When you walk around, it`s hard to get as much oxygen as you can. "
"We can take them off when we go back to our rooms, but not outdoors. So what we`re most delighted about is that we don`t have to wear masks around the place. "
Evacuees on their way home
A member of the Australian Medical Assistance Team on Christmas Island. (Photo by Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
However, Dan Holmes, head of the AUSMAT, said staff would be required to continue wearing protective clothing and masks until the last evacuees left.
"Strictly speaking, we are now ensuring that they are not infected by us. The risks are extremely low and our personnel have always been fully equipped. Doing so simply means we can`t remove the mask and give everyone a hug before the second evacuees leave. "said Holmes.
Two charter flights will wait at the Christmas Island airport and evacuees are known to be transported to Perth.
Plans are still being hammered out, but people living in other states are expected to have their own itineraries from Perth.
Meanwhile, the second flight on the island, Air New Zealand, is expected to leave Wuhan on another charter island next Wednesday.
Binny said he would go to a house he owns in Mary Valley as soon as he got home and then play nine-hole golf. "The first thing I thought about was a glass of red wine and some cheese and pizza, which sounded good. "
The Benny family of three were the first Australians to evacuate from Wuhan. (Photo by Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Mr Binny and his wife, Jemma, and their 15-year-old daughter, Meiling, had previously visited China for a holiday, but did not want to be in the Christmas Island detention centre today.
Benny needed to work before, so his wife and daughter went to China first, and they finally met in Yichang. At that time, the new crown epidemic has evolved into a crisis. "I arrived here on January 20th. By the 21st, we were aware that everything was happening, so we had to try to reschedule the flight. "
The binneys were in china during the 2003 sars, so they understood the need to leave. "We are worried that the decision to return to the epidemic centre (Wuhan) is backed by two concerns. First, we were worried about not going out because the airport was closed. There are also rumours that Australia`s government will not allow any flights from China. The second point is that if I get sick, I would rather get sick here than go there and get sick. "said Benny.
The couple, who have tried to travel on train, buses and flights to leave hubei, have been frustrated by the "blockade" of the area.
Eventually they found the driver who was willing to drive from wuhan for four hours to yichang and received an official letter from australia`s government before leaving.
"When we got to Wuhan, there wasn`t a figure on the road. Binny called the evacuation through Wuhan a "nightmare" but it helped them escape another disaster.
He said "we were supposed to be from chengdu leaf china, but we`ve never been here" and didn`t want a 5.1-magnitude earthquake in chengdu.
Christmas Island has not been diagnosed
A girl isolated on Christmas Island, playing outdoors. (Photo by the Aussies)
There are no confirmed cases of evacuations on Christmas Island.
A girl who was tested for a new coronavirus after having flu-like symptoms earlier confirmed she was not infected.
Another Australian was tested for a new coronavirus on February 10. The Aussies filmed two female soldiers handing the adult`s test sample to the man in his uniform. He then sent samples to a Hercules transporter waiting at the Christmas Island airport.
The foam box marked "Diagnostic Samples" was handed over just after 3:30 p.m. local time (7:30 p.m. Eastern Australia time). It was taken to Sydney`s Westmead`s Department of Microbiology.
The Aussies confirmed that samples were being sent to Australia for a new coronavirus test, from an adult. The man was further quarantined in his room at the christmas island detention centre until the results were obtained.
The Australian Medical Assistance Team on Christmas Island is known to have been given parts for a diagnostic instrument on Monday. Soon after, the island will be able to test a new coronavirus without having to send samples to Australia.
At present, the number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus in Australia is still 15, including 5 in Kunzhou,4 in New State and 2 in South Australia. Five people who had been diagnosed earlier were discharged and the other patients were in stable condition.
Except for one case in Xinzhou, all other confirmed cases are from Wuhan. However, the patient, who was diagnosed in Xinzhou, had contacted a Wuhan diagnosed person.
Global epidemic dynamics
By 11:30 p.m. beijing time on february 12th, the number of new cases of coronavirus pneumonia diagnosed in china had increased to 44,742, with 16,067 suspected cases and 4,748 cures. Of these,19558 were diagnosed in wuhan and 820 in death and 1377 were cured. beijing diagnosed 352 cases, shanghai 306 cases, guangdong 1219 cases, henan 1135 cases, zhejiang 1131 cases, hong kong 49 cases, tw18 cases, macao 10 cases.
In addition to 15 new cases of coronavirus confirmed in Australia, the epidemic spread to the Philippines, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Germany, the United States, Malaysia, Vietnam, France, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, India, Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Nepal, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Spain and Belgium. The number of confirmed cases outside china is 441, and death is 1.
The World Health Organization`s Global Forum on Research and Innovation in the Prevention and Control of the New Crown Virus opened in Geneva yesterday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO`s director general, said in a subsequent media release that the forum did not seek "direct answers to all questions," but rather wanted to develop a" road map "for global vaccination operations in the months ahead....
Tan Desai also announced the official WHO name for the new coronavirus pneumonia," COVID-19". Among them, the etymology of "CO" comes from the corona," VI "from the virus," D" refers to the disease, and 19 is the year of the discovery of the new coronavirus in 2019.
Academician zhong nanshan told xinhua that the inflection point was unpredictable, but the peak should be in late february. He told Reuters in an interview yesterday that the outbreak could end in April.
