As more than half a million Melbourne students return to classrooms, some must wait a little longer after a coronavirus case forced a school closure. Nazareth College, a Catholic senior school in Noble Park in the city’s southeast, was meant to reopen to year sevens and VCE students on Monday. But a positive case from… Read More »
A western Sydney primary school has been evacuated after a student tested positive to coronavirus. Parents and carers were asked to collect their children from Girraween Public School, near Blacktown, on Tuesday afternoon after the case was confirmed. Parents and their children were seen exiting the school with haste, some of them choosing to wear… Read More »
California health officials on Sunday confirmed the second case of the novel coronavirus in the Bay Area, marking the ninth confirmed case in the U.S. Officials say the new case is not related to the one declared Friday, in which a Santa Clara County resident tested positive for the virus. The patient is a man… Read More »
As the world continues to learn more about the origin of a novel coronavirus, christened 2019-nCoV, and how it spreads among humans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a fifth case in the United States. This brings the total number of states with confirmed cases to four—Arizona, California, Illinois and Washington.… Read More »
Another person is expected to be diagnosed with coronavirus in NSW, which could take the state’s number of cases to four. There were five people awaiting test results to see if they have the deadly infection but four have been cleared. Three in the state have already diagnosed. The latest person, a young Chinese woman,… Read More »