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"Coronavirus" Reporter begins quarantine at home after visiting the infected zone

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A growing list of countries is evacuating their citizens from Wuhan the center of China's coronavirus outbreak.

• Australia says:

Australia says it intends to quarantine its evacuees on Christmas Island and any Britons returning from the city RT put in quarantine for two weeks airlines are taking measures to limit the spread of the disease.

• Suspended all flights:

This that airways flight is being disinfected after returning from China while British Airways has suspended all flights to China and United Airlines and Cathay Pacific is restricting routes.

• China President:

The Chinese president says containing the virus remains a grim and complex the task with a number of confirmed cases in China at nearly 6,000 and a hundred six thousand and 132 known deaths.

Well some we and Japanese nationals were flown out of Wuhan on Wednesday and France South Korea India and Algeria are among others preparing to bring their citizens home Australia is under fire for its plan to quarantine 600 evacuees on Christmas.

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The island that's 2,000 kilometers from the mainland Shama Khalil has more from Sydney the initial reaction was one of relief that people are being evacuated and brought back to Australia,

But really the choice of Christmas Island has raised eyebrows and raised a number of questions Christmas Island has quite a tainted history,

2003:

If you will since 2003 it's been used as a detention center a place where asylum seekers are kept and detained it is famous for a recently reopened particular detention center that has recently been criticized for bad conditions for human rights violations.

It's currently housing Astra Lankan family of four this detention the center is going to be quarantine zone if you will and upon hearing that many have raised the question of why is it that 600 Australians including a hundred children that traveled with their families to celebrate the lunar year instead of being brought to hospitals in mainland China.

Why are they being brought to Christmas Island about two a thousand kilometers from the mainland is actually closer to Indonesia than it is to Australia May let's show mciallella.

China correspondent Steven McDonald who is himself in self-isolation at home in Beijing and Steven you have isolated yourself because you've recently come back from the Wuhan region.

that anybody coming back from Hubei province should wait for two weeks before going back to their workplace so that's what I'm doing like everybody else who comes back from who Bay,

And that's because the incubation period can be up to two weeks people who don't have any symptoms might not be aware that they're carrying the coronavirus,

And in the fact they are now, it’s interesting coming back into Beijing because even though it's normally quiet here at this time of year anyway, it's especially quiet now you know you move around the streets in Beijing.

There's you barely see other person shops are closed people are afraid to be coming out into the streets for fear of contracting the coronavirus,

And this is happening right across China you know from big cities to small towns the whole place normally this is the most bustling time of year important the Chinese New Year and instead, it's a very a quiet scene in virtually anywhere you visit right now in China how does the government actually police people coming back from the region.

How does it make sure they do stay at home and are conscientious about it, as you clearly have been well some reporters have actually had authorities the authorities knocking on their door,

And telling them they must do this especially in Shanghai they've taken a bit of a hard line there to make sure that nobody's strays from these directives from the government but I mean ultimately I don't know how you do patrol and how do you make sure that everybody who's been in that province doesn't well leave their home.

The thing is that I think more important are they don't go back to their workplace so you know to enter a workplace infect everybody and so people are instead being told like I am too from home schools universities there and I'm back at their paws in classes.

And you know it's interesting looking at this problem in terms of complex and comparing desires for example already the number of infections.

Here has gone past SARS and the SARS emergency lasted for seven months so people are really worried that this is an especially the contagious a version of the vary of a dangerous virus.

However, it's important to remember that doesn't seem to be as deadly because the death toll we're nowhere near that 700 plus death toll for SARS and so it could be that this is a very easy virus for people to catch but it won't necessarily kill as many people as SARS did back in 2002.