What Australia could learn from China's response to coronavirus COVID-19

As new cases plunge to an all-time low at ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic, many in Australia's Chinese community are urging Canberra to take lessons from Beijing's apparent success.

The number of new daily COVID-19 cases in Hubei province, the epicentre of the original outbreak, has fallen to just one in the last 24 hours from the height of nearly 15,000 cases recorded on February 13, according to China's National Health Commission.

It comes as countries including Italy, France and Spain experience an explosion in new cases, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) announcing over the weekend that Europe had become the new epicentre of the pandemic.

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-18/covid-19-coronavirus-ground-zero-china-records-just-one-new-case/12059826

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