Australia imposes self isolation, bans cruise ships

Australia will impose a 14-day self isolation on all international passenger arrivals from midnight Sunday to try and contain the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

Australia will also ban cruise ships from foreign ports for an initial 30 days, he said.

Australia has recorded more than 250 coronavirus cases and three deaths.

“This is very important, what we’ve seen in recent weeks, is more countries having issues with the virus and that means the source of some of those transmissions are coming from more and more countries,” he said “Bans have been very effective to date.” Mr Morrison also confirmed that from Monday, non-essential events attracting more than 500 people would be banned.

The Prime Minister said the ban would apply to “static” gatherings where people sit close to each other for a prolonged period of time.

ABC News