Australian divisions over coronavirus put pressure on PM

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On the burning question of whether Australian schools should close as coronavirus cases increase, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was adamant:

Morrison emerged from a special meeting of state and territory leaders on Sunday evening to urge parents to keep children in class, even as non-essential services including restaurants and cinemas shut.Yet before school gates opened on Monday, Gladys Berejiklian, premier of the most populous state, New South Wales , was urging parents to keep children at home.

"For practical reasons in NSW, we will be encouraging parents to keep their children at home," Berejiklian told reporters. Teachers in the northern state of Queensland said they would strike on Wednesday if their state government did not close schools. Border Force commissioner Michael Outram told Sky News it was the decision of NSW Health to allow 2,700 passengers to disembark the vessel Ruby Princess in Sydney last week, of which 48 have since tested positive for the coronavirus.

 

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