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Virus quarantine ends for some

Australian evacuees who were quarantined on Christmas Island.

Airport in Sydney, Monday, February 17, 2020. Source: AAP Image/Steven Saphore

While the Australians on Christmas Island have returned home safely, today a Quantas flight will recover the 200 Australians in quarantine aboard the cruise ship off the coast of Japan.


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By Francesca Rizzoli, Francesca Valdinoci

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While the Australians on Christmas Island have returned home safely, today a Quantas flight will recover the 200 Australians in quarantine aboard the cruise ship off the coast of Japan.


In China 1,886 new cases and 98 more deaths have been recorded - raising the total to over 2,000 and cases over 74,000. Thousands of sick people continue to seek treatment in Wuhan -the centre of the outbreak - daily.

Outside China, there have been 827 cases of the disease, and 5 deaths - half of which from the Diamond Princess Cruise.

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