Read the transcript of the 23 March 2020 press conference given by the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, about coronavirus (COVID-19). BRENDAN MURPHY: [Hello] everybody.
Today I'm giving another update on the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia and the whole world. We still continue to have increases in case numbers in Australia, which is what we have expected.
Still, a very significant number of those cases are imports - people coming back from overseas, from countries with much larger outbreaks than we have at the moment.
Some of those people have not quarantined properly and have spread to others and that's unacceptable. Every single Australian who lands on our shore, whether it's from a cruise ship or a plane, or any other