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An elderly man who contracted coronavirus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Japan has become the first Australian to die of the disease.  The 78-year-old man boarded the doomed cruise in Perth with his wife Iris, who also contracted the virus. The man died at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital …

A Gold Coast beautician who was diagnosed with coronavirus after she returned from Iran could have infected up to 40 people in Australia. The woman, 63, works at Hair Plus salon, in the Australia Fair shopping centre in Southport and fell ill at work on Thursday.  She is currently ‘in …

Australia has secretly hoarded $100million worth of medical supplies in case of a pandemic and the stockpile is now being deployed for the coronavirus. The federal Health Department’s National Medical Stockpile contains 20 million single-use face masks, antibiotics and pallets of hand sanitiser accumulated over a decade. The stockpile is …

Three more patients from England have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of UK cases to 23 – as it’s revealed more than 10,000 Britons have now been tested for the deadly virus. Two of the patients had recently travelled back from Italy while the other had returned …

Parliament could be suspended under secret plan for worst-case coronavirus scenario with Boris Johnson running Britain ‘from a war bunker’ Boris Johnson and his Cabinet would use emergency powers to battle pandemic MPs and peers would be told to stay at home in secret contingency plans One MP feared such …

Two more cases of the killer coronavirus have today been confirmed in the UK, both of them travellers who caught the virus in Europe – including one who is believed to have returned from a hotel in Tenerife where 160 Britons are quarantined. It comes amid an escalating crisis on …

The deadly coronavirus is sweeping across Europe with the outbreak in Italy showing no signs of slowing down and Switzerland, Austria, Croatia and mainland Spain today recording their first cases of the killer infection that has spread to 40 countries or territories. All of the new European cases – two …

Four of the Britons evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have tested positive for coronavirus after returning to the UK. Health officials confirmed yesterday that tests at Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral – where 32 passengers were being quarantined – showed the quartet had contracted the Covid-19 strain. …

Royal Caribbean sets dates for its free cruises for firefighters and reveals how volunteers can apply to get on board Royal Caribbean is offering two cruises for those who battled against bushfires  First will leave Sydney on February 29 and travel along the country’s east coast  The company said it …

The FTSE 100 slipped 0.4% and marked its second consecutive week in the red after an uptick in new cases of the virus in China and South Korea hit stocks more exposed to commodity prices, including oil majors and miners <.FTNMX1770>. “Perhaps the reality of the situation is starting to …