Coronavirus live news: French ordered to stay inside as White House urges isolation and EU bans non-essential travel
France mobilises 100,000 police to conduct movement checks; California tells millions to ‘shelter-in-place’; Markets plummet. Follow the latest updates.
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Moving away from that press conference now, in other Australia news – in case you missed it – actor Tom Hanks has been released from a Gold Coast Queensland hospital after being quarantined with coronavirus, AAP reports.
His wife Rita Wilson remains in isolation after also testing positive to the virus last week.
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Still in New South Wales, Australia for the moment, where state chief economist Stephen Walters says:
There can be no doubt that the next 3 to 4 months are going to be a very difficult time for business in New SouthWales. We’ve had 8 years of drought in this state. We’ve had catastrophic bushfires and we’re facing a large economic slowdown for the winter months ahead of us. There are a lot of worried business people out there. As you would know, small business people tend to view their staff as family and they will do everything in their power to keep those staff employed and not have to lay them off but I think we have to be honest and say some of the small businesses are probably not going to make it through to the other side of this.
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