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Sabtu, 14 Maret 2020

New Zealand, Australia tighten lockdown to combat coronavirus - Reuters

WELLINGTON/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - New Zealand on Saturday announced the world’s tightest border controls to combat the spread of coronavirus, requiring all incoming travellers, including its own citizens, to self-isolate for two weeks starting midnight Sunday.

FILE PHOTO: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a joint press conference held with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at Admiralty House in Sydney, Australia, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the extreme measures were needed to prevent the rapid spread of the virus.

“Alongside Israel, and a small number of Pacific Islands who have effectively closed their border, this decision will mean New Zealand will have the widest ranging and toughest border restrictions of any country in the world,” Ardern said.

The country has just six confirmed cases and has had no deaths, but Ardern said that number inevitably would rise.

“That is why ultimately, we must go hard and we must go early. We must do everything we can to protect the health of New Zealanders,” she told reporters.

People from small South Pacific island nations, which have no confirmed COVID-19 cases, will be exempt from the self-isolation rule, Ardern said.

And to protect those nations from the virus, New Zealand would impose strict exit measures, barring anyone who has been overseas from travelling to South Pacific islands for two weeks, and barring anyone who has had symptoms or been in contact with anyone with COVID-19 from travelling there.

The travel restrictions will be reviewed at the end of the March. Ardern also encouraged all New Zealanders to reconsider all overseas trips. Australia did the same on Friday.

New Zealand also asked all cruise ships to stay away until the end of June.

Air New Zealand (AIR.NZ) on Saturday offered fare refunds or 12-month credit on the value of fares to anyone affected by the new restrictions. Qantas Airways (QAN.AX) and Virgin said they were assessing their responses.

“We know these travel restrictions will place significant strain on the aviation industry, and we anticipate some routes will reduce or cease for a period of time,” Ardern said.

In Australia, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose to 203 on Saturday, with all six new cases involving people who had recently travelled overseas. There have been three deaths in Australia.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has called for an end to all non-essential gatherings of more than 500 people from Monday, cancelled plans to go to a rugby game on Saturday after a senior minister was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Friday.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton had attended a cabinet meeting with Morrison on Tuesday, but Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said on Saturday it was “extremely unlikely” anyone at the meeting would have contracted the infection from Dutton.

Australian Broadcasting Corp showed footage on Saturday of cleaners in biohazard suits scrubbing the government offices in Sydney, floor to ceiling, where the meeting was held.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who met Dutton in Washington on March 6, decided to work from home on Friday.

FILE PHOTO: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a joint press conference held with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Admiralty House in Sydney, Australia, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

New Zealand minister Tracey Martin, who also attended the meeting in Washington, was self-isolating while awaiting results from a coronavirus test, New Zealand media reported on Saturday.

In a move by business to slow the spread of the virus, Australia’s biggest telco, Telstra Corp Ltd (TLS.AX), on Friday ordered 20,000 staff, 70% of its Australian workforce, to work from home starting on Monday, a spokesman said.

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Reporting by Sonali Paul and Praveen Menon; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Richard Pullin

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Ivanka Trump and William Barr met Australian politician days before his coronavirus diagnosis - CBS News

Sydney — A senior Australian politician tested positive for the new coronavirus and entered hospital quarantine Friday, days after returning from Washington where he met Ivanka Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton was in the United States last week for a meeting with members of the FiveEyes intelligence alliance — Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand — that included Barr.

He also met with President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka on March 6, according to a photo posted by the Australian embassy in Washington, which shows the pair standing close together.

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It is not yet known when Dutton contracted the virus, and there was no immediate response from Ivanka Trump's office Friday to a CBS News query about whether she would be tested for COVID-19.

"This morning I woke up with a temperature and sore throat," Dutton, an influential member of the government and a key architect of Australia's controversial immigration laws, said in statement released Friday.

"It is the policy of Queensland Health that anyone who tests positive is to be admitted into hospital and I have complied with their advice."

Dutton said he feels "fine" but his diagnosis will raise concerns about whether other members of the cabinet and Prime Minister Scott Morrison may have been infected.

The prime minister's office confirmed Friday that Dutton attended a cabinet meeting Tuesday, but other participants would not be quarantined.

"Only people who had close contact with the minister in the preceding 24 hours before he became symptomatic need to self-isolate," a spokesman said.

"That does not include the Prime Minister or any other members of the Cabinet."

In contrast, New Zealand Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin - who also met Dutton in Washington - has self-isolated and will get tested for the virus on Saturday, local media reported.

Morrison will no longer attend a rugby match on Saturday night after earlier saying he would even as he announced a bar on gatherings of more than 500 people.

Dutton is among 184 people in Australia who have been confirmed as having COVID-19.

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He is just the latest in a string of political figures around the world to suffer a scare.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has been tested for the virus after a top aide was diagnosed with the disease following a trip to the U.S. during which both met with Mr. Trump.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in quarantine for two weeks after his wife tested positive for the virus.

British MP Nadine Dorries, a junior health minister who helped craft legislation to fight the contagion, is also infected.

Several U.S. lawmakers have isolated themselves after attending a conservative conference in late February.

The White House has insisted Mr. Trump does not need testing, despite interactions with several people who have been exposed to the virus, saying "only people with prolonged close exposure to confirmed positive cases should self-quarantine."

Meanwhile, CNN reported that Mr. Trump is concerned about coming into contact with people who have contracted the coronavirus.

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2020-03-13 12:17:33Z
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Australian Official Diagnosed With COVID-19 Days After Meeting Ivanka Trump - TIME

A senior Australian government minister who met White House officials including Ivanka Trump in Washington last week has been diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, released a statement late Friday saying he’d been diagnosed with COVID-19 and admitted to hospital. The Cabinet member visited the White House on March 5 and was pictured with Ivanka Trump, Attorney General William Barr and other ministers representing the Five Eyes security pact.

It’s unknown whether Dutton’s proximity to the U.S. president’s daughter will mean Donald Trump will test for the coronavirus — he’s yet to do so even as his incoming chief of staff and at least four other GOP lawmakers put themselves in quarantine after coming into contact with an infected person at a political event.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a statement the country’s deputy chief medical officer had advised it was not necessary for the prime minister or other cabinet members to be quarantined as they had not been in contact with Dutton in the 24 hours before he became symptomatic.

Dutton’s announcement came just hours after Morrison told reporters Australia was advising against non-essential, organized gatherings of 500 people or more from Monday, in an escalation of the nation’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.

He urged Australians to reconsider their need to travel overseas.

“It is precautionary,” Morrison told reporters, adding he was acting on the advice of Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy. “It is getting ahead of this to ensure that we can minimize the impact on your health.”

Infectious-disease experts had been urging Australia to follow the example of places like Taiwan and Singapore that have limited new cases through blanket-bans of sporting events, concerts and other mass gatherings. Australia’s official tally of confirmed cases stood at 156 on Friday, up 24% from the previous day, with three deaths.

“This is a scalable response, taking an abundance of caution,” Morrison said, adding he still planned to attend a rugby league game on Saturday as it might be his last chance for a while. “What we’re seeking to do is lower the level of overall risk while at the same time minimizing a broader level of disruption.”

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The Australian dollar remained about 1% higher, buying 63 U.S. cents at 5 p.m. in Sydney. After opening about 8% lower this morning, equities rallied throughout the day before a late spike saw the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index close up 4.4% in the biggest daily swing on record.

The announcement is the latest in a string of measures taken globally to address the spread of the virus. Italy has shut down most of the country, except for essential services like grocery stores and pharmacies. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he is banning gatherings of more than 500 people, a move that will impact Broadway. The New York rules don’t apply to schools, hospitals, nursing homes and mass transit.

France has ordered the closing of nurseries, schools and universities from the beginning of next week to slow the spread of the coronavirus, while the Netherlands plans to cancel all events, including sports games and trade shows, attended by more than 100 people for the rest of the month.

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Morrison’s announcement comes a day after Australia unveiled a A$17.6 billion ($11.4 billion) fiscal stimulus package geared toward the second quarter as it tries to buttress the economy from the outbreak that threatens to end an almost 30-year recession-free run.

Earlier Friday, Formula One canceled this year’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix event in Melbourne, as hundreds of fans queued for entry to the first practice session.

After Morrison’s announcement, the Sydney Writers’ Festival, set to start in late April and featuring authors including Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, suspended ticket sales.

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With the measure not coming into effect until Monday, fans should still be able to attend the National Rugby League games scheduled for later Friday and soccer’s A-League games this weekend.

The Australian Football League, the nation’s most popular spectator sport, opens its season March 19 at the 100,000-seat MCG.

Sporting events across the world have been delayed and canceled, or teams required to play in empty stadiums, in response to the risks posed by the virus.

In the U.S., the National Basketball Association suspended its season, as did the National Hockey League, while the NCAA called off March Madness, the college-basketball tournament. England’s Premier League will hold an emergency meeting Friday on soccer fixtures after Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta tested positive to the virus.

Should Australia’s cases grow at the 24% rate they increased between Thursday and Friday, the tally will stand at around 300 by Monday.

University of New South Wales biosecurity professor Raina MacIntyre said Morrison appeared to be getting Australians mentally prepared for an era without being able to attend large-scale sport and cultural events by not implementing an immediate ban, and the delay wouldn’t create a “big difference” in the infection tally.

Asked by a reporter whether it was responsible for him to attend a rugby league match on Saturday featuring the Cronulla Sharks, Morrison said the advice he’d received said there was no significant risk in not limiting mass gatherings immediately.

“The fact that I would still be going on Saturday speaks not just to my passion for my beloved Sharks — it might be the last game I get to go to for a long time,” he said. “That’s fine. In the future I suspect we might be watching them on television, and that’s okay as well. My point is that there is absolute reason for calm and proportionately responding to the challenges that we have here.”

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Australian Home Minister Peter Dutton tests positive for coronavirus - New York Post

The Australian Minister for Home Affairs said on Friday that he has tested positive for coronavirus.

Peter Dutton, an Australian Liberal Party politician serving as Minister for Home Affairs since 2017, said in a statement that he had been feeling ill and took a test for the illness.

“This morning I woke up with a temperature and a sore throat,” the statement read.

“I immediately contacted the Queensland Department of Health and was subsequently tested for COVID-19.

“I was advised by Queensland Health this afternoon that the test had returned positive.”

The Australian Department of Home Affairs deals with “law enforcement, national and transport security, criminal justice, emergency management, multicultural affairs, settlement services and immigration and border-related functions,” according to its website.

On Thursday, the country advised against gatherings of more than 500 people due to the spread of the virus.

Australia’s tally of coronavirus cases stood at 156, with three fatalities.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australians should reconsider their need to travel overseas.

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2020-03-13 08:07:32Z
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Don Burrows, Australia Jazz Legend, Dies at 91 - Billboard

Australian jazz great Don Burrows has died after a years-long battle with dementia. He was 91.

Burrows, an ARIA Hall of Fame inductee who was twice named as one of Australia's living national treasures, passed away peacefully on Thursday night (March 12), ending an era in Australian music, say friends of the artist.

Fellow jazz legend James Morrison paid tribute to the flutist, who he described as a mentor and a dear friend.

“He had many great sayings but one struck me the most – ‘You’re only as good as the company you keep,’ and in his company, I’ve been my best,” Morrison notes.

“Don achieved so many things and received so many accolades - but I know the only thing that really mattered to him was to pass on his gift and leave the world a little bit better place…rest easy mate, job done.”

Burrows and Morrison were also collaborators, their 2015 album In Good Company (ABC Jazz) an award-winner.

On its release, Burrows explained: “Jazz is music that is passed on to each new generation by playing it, you can’t learn it from the written page, or even by being told about it – you have to jam together. This means that most musicians of this genre have a mentor, and I was lucky enough to have the best.”

In Good Company went on to win for best independent jazz album at the AIR Independent Music Awards.

During his stellar career, Burrows performed with the likes of Stéphane Grapelli, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Oscar Peterson and many others.

“We are sad to hear about the passing of Don Burrows at age 91,” reads a statement issued by ARIA. “The jazz legend brought joy to generations of Australians and music fans abroad.”

We are sad to hear about the passing of Don Burrows at age 91. The jazz legend brought joy to generations of Australians and music fans abroad.

Here he is with James Morrison at the 1991 ARIA Awards, when he was inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame. pic.twitter.com/JV6BN2kQom

— ARIA (@ARIA_Official) March 13, 2020

Born and raised by the beachside in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Burrows got a start as a teen playing in Sydney jazz bands, during a time when the Second World War had stripped the country of many musicians.

By the 1960s, he was Australia's best-known jazz musician, according to the ABC, during which time he became the first artist to earn a gold record for an Australian jazz recording, for his album Just The Beginning.

Burrows also helped establish the first jazz course in Australia at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and became the first Aussie to perform at both the Newport Jazz Festival in the U.S. and the European Montreux Jazz Festival

For a six-year stint during the 1980s, he fronted The Don Burrows Collection on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TV.

In 1991, he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame alongside Billy Thorpe, Little River Band’s Glenn Shorrock and bass-baritone Pete Dawson. A true pioneer, he was the first jazz artist inducted into the Hall.

Service arrangements will be announced at a later date.

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Kamis, 12 Maret 2020

Tom Hanks Got Sick in Australia, Where Coronavirus Testing Is a Snap - The New York Times

SYDNEY, Australia — Tom Hanks had a cold, or so he thought: slight fever, body aches, chills, the usual.

In the United States, those symptoms may not be enough to get tested for the new coronavirus. But he and his wife, Rita Wilson, who also felt sick, weren’t at home — they were in Australia.

Here, testing is free and widely available, thanks to early and coordinated planning for a pandemic. On Thursday, Mr. Hanks said he and his wife had seen the efforts firsthand, as they tested positive for the virus.

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“The Medical Officials have protocols that must be followed,” Mr. Hanks wrote in an announcement he posted on Twitter, choosing capital letters for his new acquaintances. “We Hanks’ will be tested, observed and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires.”

Mr. Hanks is now the public face of a pandemic’s widening reach. What was once a national problem for China, where the virus originated and soon killed thousands, has become an international stress test for public health performance.

Some countries, like the United States, are looking increasingly ill prepared, or, in the case of Italy, fighting to avoid being overwhelmed. Others, like South Korea, moved quickly to test and isolate huge numbers of people and appear to be bringing their outbreaks under control.

Although Canada has relatively few cases so far, its testing system is also well developed, a result of the SARS outbreak in the country 17 years ago, when 44 people died and 438 were infected.

Australia, with just 128 confirmed cases, has not yet been put to the same kind of test as Italy or South Korea. But health officials are determined to be ready for whatever comes — heads down on their spreadsheets, trying to stay calm in a battle where planning ahead and avoiding drama mean victory.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison, still bruised from a failure to react quickly to the country’s bush-fire crisis this summer, set an emergency coronavirus plan in motion on Feb. 28.

Rather than play down the risks or promise that the problem would fade in a month or two — as President Trump did — Mr. Morrison was one of the first world leaders to declare that the virus would span the planet.

“We believe the risk of global pandemic is very much upon us,” he said two weeks ago, as cases were just starting to rise quickly outside China. “And, as a result, as a government, we need to take the steps necessary to prepare for such a pandemic.”

That same day, state and territory health ministers met to discuss plans for testing, stockpiling medication and opening special clinics that would keep potential coronavirus patients out of regular emergency rooms. The officials have continued to meet regularly.

“In terms of the amount of time and human hours that have gone into the planning, it’s massive,” said Ian Mackay, a virologist at the University of Queensland who has been involved. “It’s been going on all year, really, and entire lives have gone into just planning and coordinating. It’s been all-consuming.”

Testing has been a priority from the beginning.

Days after China shared the genome of the virus, Australia’s private testing industry — which handles everything from blood tests to stool samples — was mobilized, with the government making tests free through Medicare, the national health care plan.

Public health officials set up a national hotline for people who think they might have the virus. States have set up web pages with locations for coronavirus testing, which has mostly been taking place in hospital wards set apart from regular emergency rooms.

Anyone with symptoms who has traveled through countries with an outbreak of the virus, or who might have come into contact with someone who did or who seems sick, can be tested.

There is even a drive-through clinic in South Australia that will let you stay in your car for a swab, a model also used in South Korea.

Planning has been similarly robust in Canada. Health care is normally provided by the provinces there, but after the SARS outbreak, the federal government established an agency to coordinate and help finance testing and treatment during any kind of viral or disease outbreak.

A national laboratory was expanded to become the clearinghouse for tests, which are conducted in some provinces by local authorities.

As in Australia, all medical tests are free under Canada’s public health system, and on Thursday morning, a lawmaker with responsibilities for federal health care told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that there were currently enough test kits for 16,000 patients.

So far, Canada has 103 confirmed cases and has performed 642 tests.

In the United States, little if anything about the process has been efficient or convenient. Tests have been slow to arrive across the country, in part because of a manufacturing problem, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Criteria for who should be tested have been widened only recently. At first, the C.D.C. recommended testing only those who had traveled to Wuhan, China, or had contact with a suspected coronavirus case and had a fever or respiratory symptoms.

In late February, the guidelines were relaxed, but a patient still had to be hospitalized to be eligible for a test. Vice President Mike Pence announced on March 3 that the C.D.C. would lift those restrictions, granting tests if a physician ordered them, but doctors were asked to keep certain factors in mind before doing so. And laboratories are still reporting that the demand for testing is greater than the supply.

In Australia, no shortages have been reported. On Thursday, Annastacia Palaszczuk, the premier of Queensland, the state where Mr. Hanks is hospitalized, said there were 27 people confirmed to have the coronavirus there, and in every case, “we know the origin of where they have come from.”

She did not say whether Mr. Hanks and Ms. Wilson had contracted the virus in Australia or brought it from the United States.

Mr. Mackay, the virologist, noted that Ms. Wilson, an actress and singer, had recently performed a concert in Beverly Hills, on a date within the incubation period for the virus. Mr. Hanks is in Australia shooting a film about Elvis Presley with the Australian director Baz Luhrmann; there were reports that at least one other person on the set had tested positive.

Ms. Palaszczuk said everyone who had come into contact with Mr. Hanks and Ms. Wilson would have to self-isolate, and she promised that they would be well treated. They were two of seven new cases reported in Queensland on Thursday, and they are officially listed as being in stable condition at Gold Coast University Hospital, where they are being kept in isolation.

Under the protocols Mr. Hanks referred to on Twitter, doctors and health officials will regularly check on them, whether or not they stay in the hospital after they are cleared for release.

“I’m very confident that we have world-class doctors that are determined to look after them and give them the best possible care,” Ms. Palaszczuk said.

She then added a warning: “What this signals is that this coronavirus can happen to anyone,” she said, adding: “We need the public to be listening to the authorities, listening very closely and adhering.”

Which is exactly what Mr. Hanks and Ms. Wilson seem to be doing: taking direction from Medical Officials.

“They’re not tripping but they’re going through the necessary health precautions, obviously,” their son Chet Hanks said in a message on Instagram. “I don’t think it’s anything to worry about.”

Livia Albeck-Ripka and Isabella Kwai contributed reporting. Ian Austen contributed reporting from Ottawa.

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