The closures come after the government told all travellers entering Australia to self-isolate for 14 days.
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Australia could be placed into lockdown due to COVID-19 | Sky News AustraliaAustralian cities could be placed into lockdown as authorities continue attempts to stop the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nA ban on large public gatherings will commence on Monday as schools across the country prepare for the possibility they too could be shut down. \n\nSome schools in Australia are taking matters into their own hands and planning to teach their students remotely, and Health Minister Greg Hunt said a formal directive on closing schools is an option that may be considered down the track. \n \n'When we are looking forward over the course of the next six months we are, rightly, keeping all options on the table,' he said. \n\n\n If Wynyard is in lockdown. Does that mean I get stay while I get paid ? “Down the track”...”six months”? Does he think we have that long?
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NSW COVID-19 cases rises to 112 | Sky News AustraliaNSW’s total number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 112 after 20 new cases were diagnosed in 24 hours. \n\nAmong them are three people who recently returned from Italy as well as a female health worker. \n\nIn Victoria, a total of 49 people have been diagnosed with the nation’s most expensive private school, Geelong Grammar School, set to close its doors on Wednesday, nine days ahead of the scheduled end of term date. \n\nImage: Getty How government weak kneed is hopeless in any crisis coalition seen that in. Fires drought mix messaging doesn’t help either How many have recovered? If you don't think there is already thousands infected you are very naive.
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Workers 'feeling a little nervous' over job security amid COVID-19 outbreak | Sky News AustraliaResolution123 founder Carly Stebbing says “both permanent and casual workers should be very open” to conversations with their employers over entitlements for paid and unpaid annual and sick leave amid the COVID-19 outbreak.\n\nWorkers are experiencing uncertainty over job security as well as their ability to secure leave if required to self-isolate or if they contact the coronavirus, particularly for casual workers who do not have the same entitlements as full time workers. \n\nMs Stebbing told Sky News “workers' are right to be feeling a little bit nervous about what is going on, what they need to be aware of and what their rights are”.\n\nShe said if it were necessary to remain at home due to health concerns “you need to be talking to your employer about the ability to work from home”.\n\nThe employment law expert said the issue should “ultimately be about job protection”. \n\nConcerns were raised by employees over whether their jobs could be terminated if they contracted the virus but “it is unlawful to discriminate against a person on the basis of their race or a disability,” she said. \n\n“There are going to be a lot of inquiries made now that might otherwise have felt like an invasion of privacy in the past around your travel.\n\n“At the end of the day an employer has a duty of care to ensure the health and safety of their workers at work and equally we have our own duty to ourselves and to others in the workforce.”\n\nImage: Getty \n maybe all those non PAYG tax payers (self-employed, companies, businesses, centerlink rorters etc) who are milking billions from our tax base (stealing from us, not the 'gov't) would like to fund sick leave for casuals, self employed, contractors and others. Easier said than done. Many young or first generation employees are intimidated to talk about these issues with “The Boss”.
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Public sport events at risk from COVID-19 | Sky News AustraliaFormer professional tennis player Jaslyn Hewitt says the cancellation of sporting events due to the outbreak of COVID-19 is “becoming very widespread across the sporting community'. \n\nThe Association of Tennis Professionals is among the latest sport institutions to ban sport matches after the next round of the Davis Cup set to run in America was cancelled.\n\nMs Hewitt told Sky News the ATP have announced April 20 as the date for restarting the nation’s tennis schedule “however given the state of play in the world at the moment I would suspect that may be pushed back”.\n\nThe public was allowed entry to AFL and NRL matches over the weekend although spectators have been banned from the next round of matches. \n\nImage: AP JaslynHewitt What a genius, can you get her to break more stories JaslynHewitt Jaslyn needs some serious depilatory action on those legs JaslynHewitt Poor bookies.....not really.
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Two Sydney university students test positive to COVID-19 | Sky News AustraliaA student at the University of NSW and one at Sydney University have tested positive to COVID-19.\n\nUNSW said the infected student went into immediate self-isolation and was not on campus while contagious. \n\nThe USYD student reported feeling unwell at the weekend and is recovering in hospital. \n\nSix on campus locations will be cleaned and about 80 people have been identified as close contacts of the infected students and were asked to self-isolate for 14 days. Bet they are fly ins. .👎 If fly ins, the university should be held liable. Is it Karen Ji? The one complaining that she had to dance around to get back into Australia. Be hilarious if it’s her. Cancel her visa either way. Hopefully she is copy shit from anyone that has anything to do with her.
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All travellers must self-isolate under strict new COVID-19 measures | Sky News AustraliaAll arrivals to Australia will have to self-isolate for 14 days under strict new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus. \n\nCruise ships will also be banned from docking at any Australian port for 30 days with the Prime Minister flagging further measures may come. \n\n“All people coming to Australia will be required to self-isolate for 14 days,” Mr Morrison said. \n\n“If your mate has been to Bali and they turn up to work and sit next to you, they’ll be committing an offense.\n\n“We’re going to have to get used to some changes in the way we live our lives.” \n\nFive Australians have so far died from the virus. \n\nImage: Getty I take it the ratio of police officer to person has now increased to 1:1 Fair enough. And how is this going to be policed? Can someone explain to me why in Australia we are delaying the onset of co-vid-19 so that it spreads during the normal Flu season. AND we are NOT SUPER PROTECTING THE MOST VULNERABLE
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