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The coronavirus outbreak in Australia has entered a new, more potent phase and is being fuelled by local or community trans­missions, according to biosecurity experts.

“Based on what’s happening around the nursing home in northwest Sydney, there could ­already be between 50 and 100 cases in that community alone,” said Raina MacIntyre, professor of global biosecurity at the University of NSW, referring to three cases that emerged on Wednesday at BaptistCare in Macquarie Park. READ MORE

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Professor Raina MacIntyre

Raina MacIntyre

NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Global Biosecurity.

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