Deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly said the government was looking at the possibility of between 20 and 60 per cent of the country’s 25,000,000 citizens contracting the killer virus — with a fatality rate of one per cent. He would not say exactly how many the government was predicting, just that it was somewhere between German Prime Minister Angela Merkel’s 60 per cent prediction and NSW Health’s Dr Kerry Chant’s modelling of 20 per cent. Scott Morrison has announced all people arriving in Australia will be asked to self isolate for two weeks. People arrive in International Departures at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport. Picture: Mark StewartSource:News Corp Australia “With testing, you need to look at where you get the best bang for your buck,” he said. Australia has almost hit 300 cases of COVID-19 and five people have died. “This week it’s all about slowing the curve of the epidemic,” Prof Kelly said. The Morrison Government is releasing a new plan ahead of the Budget to help the economy suffering a massive blow from coronavirus. Passengers arriving at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport. Picture: Mark StewartSource:News Corp Australia “It’s something in the range, I’m not going to speculate on the actual numbers,”… Read full this story
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