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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended not rushing into a wage subsidy plan to help employers and their staff during the coronavirus crisis, saying it is not a case of "cutting and pasting" what other...

A 75-year-old Queensland woman has died of the coranavirus.The woman, who died in a Caboolture Hospital, was a passenger on the Ruby Princess cruise ship, says Queensland Chief Medical Officer Jeannette Young.

The rate of coronavirus infections across Australia is slowing but Prime Minister Scott Morrison concedes it is still at a strong level.

NSW has recorded a further 186 cases of patients with COVID-19, taking its total of confirmed cases to 1791.

China has begun reopening some of its transport links between the coronavirus epicentre Hubei and the rest of the country, as its numbers of new cases continue to fall.

US President Donald Trump has backed away from calling for a quarantine for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, instead directing that a "strong travel advisory" be issued for the coronavirus epicentres.

The next two weeks will be the toughest yet in the fight against coronavirus in France, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has warned as his government raced to add intensive care beds and source protective gear.

A man and a woman have been fined $1000 each after the pair allegedly flouted their 14-day coronavirus self-isolation period following their arrival from Thailand.

Thousands of people flying into Australia have begun being shuttled to makeshift quarantine facilities across the country as Australia turns to law-and-order to fight the novel coronavirus.