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TIM MCLEAN: Morning folks, it's um Thursday the 6th of February. Middle of a ghost town
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here. Everyone is hiding. It's dire here. It's very dire. There's people dropping on
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the footpath, literally. Ok? I can't wait to get out of here, it's terrible.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: A city of 11 million people in lockdown.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: So here I am, sitting at home and reporting
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from where I live. That's because after returning from Hubei province at the heart of the coronavirus
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outbreak, everybody's told you need to go into quarantine, you can't be exposed to others
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for several weeks...
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: More than two-thousand dead, tens of thousands infected. Rising anger
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over how the crisis is being handled.
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RICHARD MCGREGOR, EAST ASIA SENIOR FELLOW, LOWY INSTITUTE: Local officials in Wuhan did
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withhold information. The doctors in Wuhan who were talking about it were explicitly
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told to shut up.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: And scientists racing to find a vaccine.
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PROFESSOR TREVOR DREW, DIRECTOR, CSIRO AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY: We just don't know
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how this outbreak is going to develop or how many people are ultimately going to be infected,
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or ultimately going to die from this disease.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Tonight on 4 Corners, how the coronavirus outbreak sparked a global
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emergency.
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TIM MCLEAN: I'm absolutely fucking petrified. The police are actually knocking on doors
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and taking temperatures and if people have a temperature, they're dragging them out.
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You don't get a fucking say in it. You don't get an option.
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YING WANG: Wuhan is a very, very beautiful charming and bustling city in central China.
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It sits on the banks of the Yangtze River. It's a mega city. Wuhan is also home to the
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second most number of universities in China. People around the world come to Wuhan to study.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT It's right in the heart of the country, geographically
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as well as economically. Because all these trains and plains are coming through there.
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To have the outbreak start there, it's almost like if you wanted to pick the worst place
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for it to break out in, that would be the place you'd release it.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: In early December, people in Wuhan begin falling ill with a mystery virus.
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PROFESSOR SHARON LEWIN, DIRECTOR, DOHERTY INSTITUTE: The first infections in Wuhan started
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in early December, and I believe the first case in December the 1st. When a new infectious
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disease appears, it does take a little time to register and become aware that it's new.
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Um, so there were people presenting with a form of pneumonia.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Local doctors suspect the virus originated in the city's seafood
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and wildlife market.
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PROFESSOR RAINA MACINTYRE, HEAD, BIOSECURITY PROGRAM, UNSW KIRBY INSTITUTE: So, we think
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the virus probably originated from bats, because that's what the genetic data tell us, but
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often there's an intermediary animal host. In this case they think pangolins might be
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implicated, which are a mammal, and that intermediary animal host might have been at the markets.
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We don't think that it's from eating those things specifically, like through the gastrointestinal
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tract, but more from handling them, from touching the contaminated meat. So, somewhere in that
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market we believe there must have been a contaminated animal source that infected
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the first cluster of humans.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: In late December as the number of cases increases, doctors
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in Wuhan begin sharing information in a private chat group.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: Well before any of us knew about the coronavirus,
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there were people who tried to sound the alarm. So, there were a group of whistle blowers
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who'd heard that there was this virus cluster, and they started speaking about it. Now, in
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particular, there was one doctor, Li Wenliang. He posted on a chat group with his former
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university classmates, that people had been coming into his university with what he thought
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was the SARS virus.
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VOICEOVER (starts in Chinese, then in English): 7 SARS cases were confirmed in the Huanan
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seafood market. The main mode of transmission of the virus is droplet transmission at close
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range or contact with respiratory secretions of patients. This can cause a special pneumonia
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that is evidently contagious and capable of affecting multiple organ systems. It is also
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called SARS. The patients were isolated in the emergency department of our hospital.
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Everyone please be careful.
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VOICEOVER: That's scary. SARS is back?
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: The outbreak revived the spectre of SARS, another type of coronavirus
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which killed 774 people in 2002 and 2003.
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PROFESSOR SHARON LEWIN, DIRECTOR, DOHERTY INSTITUTE: The reason why they would have
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been so concerned at the prospect is this was SARS, was threefold. First of all, SARS
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was super infectious. Second, it had a relatively high mortality rate of 10%. And third, a large
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number of healthcare workers actually died from SARS because of the complexity with stopping
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transmission and I think that was the real concern.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: On the same day as Dr Li's warning, the Wuhan Health Commission
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sends an urgent internal notice to hospitals on the treatment of pneumonia of unknown cause.
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VOICEOVER (starts in Chinese, then in English): Some medical institutions in our city have
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seen patients steadily with pneumonia of unknown cause. If you find patients with unexplained
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pneumonia, actively adjust the resources and treat them on the spot.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: The notice warns them to keep the outbreak quiet.
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VOICEOVER: Without authorisation, no units or individuals shall release treatment related
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information to the outside.
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DR WU QIANG, CHINESE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I have no doubt that local governments have
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reported the situation to the central government. So local governments were not accountable
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to the people at that time, but to the central government. They adopted a policy of concealing
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the truth from the public but starting to control the epidemic internally. This contradiction
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prevented them from properly mobilizing to deal with the spread of the epidemic.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Dr Li and the other doctors continue to share information.
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VOICEOVER: Be careful. The WeChat group of our class has been banned. The latest news
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is the coronavirus infection has been confirmed, and virus classification is in progress. Please
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don't spread the word and ask your family and loved ones to take precautions.
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VOICEOVER: Do not go to the Huanan seafood market in the near future.
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RICHARD MCGREGOR, EAST ASIA SENIOR FELLOW, LOWY INSTITUTE: So when this group of doctors,
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I think they were university classmates from Wuhan, began sharing the information they
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had about a strange new virus on this joint WeChat group, they were doing what
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you'd expect medical professionals to do. To try and sort of pool information and see what
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was actually happening. But of course that's a kind of dangerous thing to do in China.
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I think there's little doubt right now that local officials in Wuhan did withhold information.
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They've admitted as much. The doctors in Wuhan who were talking about it, were explicitly
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told to shut up.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Dr Li and his colleagues are hauled in for questioning by Wuhan police.
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VOICEOVER: After investigation and verification by the public security organs, eight offenders
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have been summoned and handled according to law. The police will investigate and punish
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with zero tolerance those illegal acts that fabricate and spread rumours and
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disrupt social order.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: Doctor Li was disciplined by his own hospital.
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He was even picked up by the police and taken in, and castigated and told not to spread
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rumours. This is what happens when you are saying things publicly that the Communist
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Party doesn't like. You're spreading rumours. Even if somebody is trying to tell the world
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about a potentially dangerous virus, the first instinct is to shut them up.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Despite the risk of retribution, critics like Dr Wu Qiang,
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who already lost his university job for defying a ban by President Xi on teaching democracy,
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continue to speak out over the government's handling of the crisis.
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DR WU QIANG, CHINESE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: They were basically concealing the truth;
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although internal controls were in place, the information kept from the public caused
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the outbreak of the disaster and the spread of the disease.
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RICHARD MCGREGOR, EAST ASIA SENIOR FELLOW, LOWY INSTITUTE: That's the key point in this
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saga. They lost about two weeks, maybe three weeks, just when the virus was at it's sort
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of nascent point, just at a time where they could have traced it, just at a time where
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perhaps they could have checked it more substantially. But that was lost because it got caught up
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in the politics of the information flow and information surveillance in China.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Four weeks after the first infections, China notifies the World
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Health Organisation of the outbreak.
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Things are about to get worse. In early January,
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millions of Chinese are preparing to travel to and from Wuhan to celebrate Chinese New
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Year with their families.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: If you were to pick the most dangerous time,
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the worst time, for a virus to break out here, the, the worst time for it to spread quickly
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across China and even around the world, it would be the lunar new year. You have hundreds
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of millions of people criss-crossing China, travelling overseas. And because of that mass
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migration, the largest mass migration annually in the world, I mean, it, it was just a terrible
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time for this virus outbreak to, to happen.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Australian resident Ying Wang who lives in Melbourne, is preparing
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to visit Wuhan with her husband and two children when she hears about the outbreak.
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YING WANG: It was a couple of days after our Christmas holiday in Melbourne, I got a video
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sent over from my cousin in Wuhan and according to the video there was a suspected SARS-like
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pneumonia and I asked my cousin should I cancel my trip? We waited until probably the first
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week in January and then there was an official announcement from our local government back
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in Wuhan saying that the disease was controllable and then we sort of, I feel relieved, so we
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went on with our trip.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Ying Wang and her family arrive in Wuhan on January 9. That
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same day a 61-year-old man who had visited the seafood market becomes the first person
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to die of coronavirus. His death is kept quiet for two days.
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DR WU QIANG, CHINESE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: During the most crucial time of the spread
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of disease in early Jan, Wuhan and Hubei were holding annual political meetings. As a result,
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the first death which occurred on January 9 was not announced until January 11. After
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January 11 the data on deaths and confirmed cases plateaued and the numbers had not changed
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at all. I believe that the local authorities concealed the truth from the public due to
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political concerns.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: On January 22, the government finally acknowledges the gravity
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of the situation at a press conference in Beijing.
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LI BIN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION OF CHINA: The virus might mutate and the epidemic
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is at risk of spreading further. It is currently the Spring Festival travel rush season, when
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the mobility of the general public increases sharply, which has heightened the risk of
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epidemic transmission and the difficulty of prevention and control. We must not take it
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lightly and be highly vigilant.
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NEWSREADER: Nine people have died and 440 people have contracted a mysterious coronavirus,
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as China works to stop it spreading during the lunar new year travel rush.
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YING WANG: It was, 22nd, 22nd of January, that was the turning point. It was Wednesday
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and just bad news started coming in, starting with the Chinese official news saying
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that it's getting, getting much worse than they expected and then all of a
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sudden, I think it was the next day 23rd, I remember, I woke up quite late like 10:00 AM
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and suddenly, my dad just told me, oh, we can't go out now. We can't go out.
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We can't get out our apartment.
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NEWSREADER: There's been a dramatic development this morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan
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which is the epicentre of an outbreak of a deadly new virus. All public transport, buses,
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trains, ferries and the airport have been shut down as authorities scramble to contain
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the spread of the coronavirus.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: I mean, when the authorities decided to lock
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down that whole province of Hubei. That's like locking down the entire population of
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Italy and telling them you can't leave that province. It was really the moment when everybody
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knew, all right, this is a big problem.
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PROFESSOR SHARON LEWIN, DIRECTOR, DOHERTY INSTITUTE: When Wuhan went into lockdown,
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I think January the 23rd and then flights and greater lockdown measures across China.
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This is unprecedented in the history of modern medicine. We've never tried. We know that
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containment can work, but it's never really been done at this large scale.
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YING WANG: The day I learned that Wuhan was in lockdown and I felt quite shocked
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and I start immediately start worrying about food, food supply. And I had to stop everything
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on that day. Just started messaging everybody to find out is that really the official news.
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How serious is this announcement?
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: By late January, Wuhan's hospitals are struggling to cope,
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and medical staff are under intolerable pressure.
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NURSE: I can't take it anymore! (Screams)
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MALE HOSPITAL WORKER: We don't want to live anymore.
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Look at it yourselves.
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What on earth do you want to do?
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I don't want people, you take them away. Take away that one lying on the floor
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. Otherwise, you'd better kill me. Let me out of here, send me home.
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I'm not creating trouble. So many lying there, what can I do?
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: With patient numbers surging, construction begins on two new hospitals,
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with one scheduled to open in just over a week.
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NEWSREADER: Even though Chinese authorities have shut down several cities, the world health
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organisation says it's not yet a global health emergency.
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PROFESSOR RAINA MACINTYRE, HEAD, BIOSECURITY PROGRAM, UNSW KIRBY INSTITUTE: So, obviously
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the whole world was watching very closely through January as this epidemic unfolded,
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and people were very concerned. A lot of experts were concerned and felt that the Public Health
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Emergency of International Concern should have been declared earlier. I think people
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were harking back to Ebola and what happened there, and they were afraid of delays that
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might have been very costly in terms of the ability to save people's lives.
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NEWSREADER: Australia's first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Victoria, as New South
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Wales announces it has two probable cases.
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DR MIKE CATTON, CO-DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DOHERTY INSTITUTE: So, the minute we made the diagnosis
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of the first case in Australia, we knew how significant that was and we knew that we wanted
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to culture the virus.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: In a major breakthrough, Australian scientists become the first outside
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China to isolate the virus in a laboratory.
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DR MIKE CATTON, CO-DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DOHERTY INSTITUTE: Okay, it's definitely growing.
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It started at 30, so that's three long. So, a thousand times stronger. Awesome. So, it's
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definitely growing. So, we've got it. Fantastic. Yep.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: CSIRO scientists begin growing the virus in their highest security
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laboratory, reserved for the most deadly pathogens.
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PROFESSOR TREVOR DREW, DIRECTOR, CSIRO AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY: We don't actually
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know how dangerous this virus is. We know it kills people, but we don't know how many,
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and we don't know exactly what the mechanism is by which this virus kills people. So at
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the moment we're taking the highest level of precautions.
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DR ROB GRENFELL, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND BIOSECURITY, CSIRO: Our staff can only usually work about
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four hours in those suits and in those conditions, because it's very stressful to imagine you're
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actually working with such high volatile agents.
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PROFESSOR TREVOR DREW, DIRECTOR, CSIRO AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY: So the most important
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thing that we're doing at the moment is growing the virus to produce more of it so that we
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can understand more about the characteristics of this virus, and also how it behaves in
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a biological model so that we can see the progress of the disease.
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DR ROB GRENFELL, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND BIOSECURITY, CSIRO: So, we will then introduce the virus
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into our test animals, on this occasion ferrets, because their respiratory system is very similar
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to humans. And the idea here is to understand how that infection progresses and how it behaves.
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This is very important for us to understand because if we can't understand how the
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infection progresses and in which way it progresses we can't understand how vaccines work.
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SCIENTIST: So, I think this will be ready to harvest tomorrow.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: In China, the escalating number of infections prompts a rare outburst
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of anger online against authorities.
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WUHAN RESIDENT: I want to fucking ask, can you find another country on this planet that
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is such fucking bullshit?
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Can you find another country on this planet, another government
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to fuck shit up like this? Wuhan is like fucking hell right now. To see them just drop dead
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or all kinds of scenarios, all those tragedies. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year.
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It should have been a happy time. Can you say that the Wuhan people or Chinese people
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feel happy now?
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DR WU QIANG, CHINESE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: It can be said that the more than 900 million
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Chinese citizens who are equipped with smart phones have been extremely dissatisfied with
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the situation of Wuhan pneumonia in the past one month or so. From my own observation,
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this level of dissatisfaction is unprecedented in the past eight years. They have been tremendously
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dissatisfied with Wuhan local government's ineffectiveness in epidemic and disaster relief,
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the predicament the Wuhan people have been put into from the city lockdown, the paralysis
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of the local medical institutions, and the huge risk they have to face.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: As authorities desperately try to stop the virus spreading, Wuhan is
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effectively cut off from the rest of China.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: We decided to go into Hubei province to have
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a look what it was like, right inside the virus hot zone.
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As we got closer and closer to Hubei, the road
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blocks were becoming more serious, and in fact looked like something out of an apocalyptic
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movie. The police are making all the cars pull over to the side.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: So basically, that's the border that way.
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The police have told us that we can drive in but we can't drive out.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: We drove through a series of ghost towns.
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I mean, nobody on the streets, shops closed, the shutters were down. And this is during
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Spring festival. Normally this is a time when you'd have fireworks, families, friends gathering
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to have meals together, celebrating, being happy, and instead it was completely dead,
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and in fact, pretty eerie.
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NEWSREADER: The outbreak of the coronavirus in China has finally been declared a global
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health emergency after a rapid escalation in the number of infections during the past
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week. There are almost 8,000 cases in 18 countries, including 9 in Australia.
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STEPHEN MCDONELL, BBC CHINA CORRESPONDENT: So here I am, sitting at home and reporting
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from where I live. That's because after returning from Hubei province at the heart of the coronavirus
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outbreak, everybody's told you need to go into quarantine, you can't be exposed to others
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for several weeks. This city, Beijing, if I look out the window, it's dead. I mean,
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there are hardly any people in the streets. Friends here don't want to go outdoors. That's
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because they're afraid of catching the coronavirus, and the same is happening all over the countries,
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all these mega-cities in China.
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NEWSREADER: The government is taking drastic action to stem the coronavirus. Foreign nationals
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coming from China are now banned from entering the country.
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PROFESSOR RAINA MACINTYRE, HEAD, BIOSECURITY PROGRAM, UNSW KIRBY INSTITUTE: I think from
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a disease control point of view, we want to continue these for as long as is feasible.
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There's just so many major economic consequences of the travel ban that I think at some point
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we'll have to make the decision to lift the bans, but if we can keep them going as long
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as possible, that will be beneficial from a disease control point of view.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Hundreds of Australians remain trapped in Hubei province.
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YING WANG: So, this is the view from my window, and it's been really good weather today, but
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we're not going out. And this is our central garden on level six. So, it's a bit shame
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that we're stuck at home, otherwise it could be a really good day out.
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YING WANG: I really just want a more firm answer from anywhere really, from WHO or,
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or, or my local government. So how, how bad really is? I- I'm still having this question.
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How serious is this whole pandemic? Even though everyday we watch the numbers, infected number
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of people, also the death toll keep going up. Just, yeah, I need to, I don't
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know, I need someone to assure me this is some ... I don't know, I feel like the end of the world.
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TIM MCLEAN: Morning folks. It's Thursday 6th February.
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Middle of a ghost town here.
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1.3 million people all hiding. It's raining, it's a miserable day.
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Death toll is, what, 545 today.
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Um, 16,800-odd people in hospital in my district.
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Waiting on DFAT to give us an answer about when I can get out of here.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Australian Tim McLean is stranded on the outskirts of Wuhan. He's
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trying to get his Chinese partner a visa to come to Australia.
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TIM MCLEAN: Um, Foreign Affairs just contacted me. I just hung up the phone. Um, they just
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confirmed, and wanted to let me know, that my spouse Xu Qiong didn't make the
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list for the flight with Qantas, and asked me if I was still interested in leaving.
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I informed them that I'm not leaving without her.
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It's dire here. It's very dire. There's
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queues outside the hospitals now. We're not allowed near them. There's people dropping
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on the footpath, literally. Okay? I know how bad it is. I can't wait to get out
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of here. It's- it's terrible.
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TIM MCLEAN: So, this is them spraying outside our front door, they have been doing this
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through the city regularly.
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The local council have been going out and spraying disinfectant around everybody's doorways.
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So I suspect they're spraying to stop infections coming out of the sewer.
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I better go in and shut the door.
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I've seen medical folks turn up two doors away from me, 20 metres from my
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front door, and take a lady away that was infected. They also took her son.
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The son returned home 24 hours later; he was okay. We haven't seen or heard of the lady since.
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PROFESSOR RAINA MACINTYRE: So, people
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have been concerned about the human rights aspects of quarantine and isolation of
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cases, quarantine of contacts, et cetera, and that's been happening on a very large scale
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in China but also in Australia and other countries. From a disease control point of view, putting
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aside other issues, from a disease control point of view it works.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Videos emerge on social media
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of authorities using increasingly drastic measures.
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RESIDENT (in Mandarin): Forced quarantine. The whole family of four. Go. Hurry up. Leave.
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No filming allowed.
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Go. What are you doing?
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Can you leave me alone?
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- Get in there. - No.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Around China, residents post scenes claiming officials are welding
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the doors of apartment buildings shut so people can't get out.
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Woman (in Mandarin): Hey look, is that the door? They are welding the door. That's a
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door in the middle, look.
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Terrible.
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They are welding the door, not allowing people to get out.
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Next will be our block, Block 6.
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TIM MCLEAN: I'm very concerned about getting this virus. I'm not even 100 metres away from
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one of the hospitals that's full. I've seen people entering that hospital. I've seen,
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people getting rolled out on stretchers out of that hospital. It's literally across
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the road from where I come out of my apartment. Now, that's concerning.
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My hospitals here are full. We've run out of medical supplies here.
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There's no PPE, or personal protective equipment available anymore,
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so the doctors have all gone to the bigger hospitals.
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They're shipping our sick and our, you know, the people that are in bad condition, they're
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taking them to Wuhan. The Wuhan hospitals are also full now.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: By early February the virus is in 25 countries,
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with 216 cases outside China.
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PROFESSOR TREVOR DREW: The most likely
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way that the virus is traveling outside of China is by infected people. So these people,
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they are perhaps in the early stages of the disease and perhaps not showing very many
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clinical signs. So, they are able to get onto planes and they're quite happy to travel,
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and in all innocence they are spreading the disease as they travel.
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PROFESSOR NEIL FERGUSON, EPIDEMIOLOGIST, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON: We think 10% or less
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of all infections in china are being detected at the current time. We estimate that up to 50,000
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new infections a day occur in China, which is obviously much larger than the
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official case numbers.
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NEWSREADER: Almost 4,000 passengers, including more than 200 Australians, have spent their
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first 24 hours officially in quarantine on board a cruise ship off Japan. They'll be
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isolated on board for the next fortnight, with some passengers growing anxious as their
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crucial medicines are beginning to run out.
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PROFESSOR RAINA MACINTYRE: We know that cruise ships
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are at high risk for outbreaks. It's well documented that you get outbreaks
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of influenza, norovirus, gastro and so on, on cruise ships. They are closed small communities
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in a very small space compared to, say, a country. So obviously you can get more intense
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transmission once an outbreak starts.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Shocking news breaks that the man who had first warned of the outbreak
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has died of coronavirus.
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NEWSREADER: In China, censors are working overtime to contain an outpouring of anger
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and grief over the death of the doctor who blew the whistle on the coronavirus crisis.
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Li Wenliang died from the virus in a Wuhan hospital five weeks after being punished by
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authorities for warning others of a dangerous new virus.
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RICHARD MCGREGOR, EAST ASIA SENIOR FELLOW, LOWY INSTITUTE: There was a huge outpouring
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of grief, anger, frustration, on Chinese social media. And not just from so-called netizens
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on Chinese-style Reddit forums or something, but from the Supreme Court of China who put
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out a statement saying that, you know, these doctors were heroes, they should have been
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allowed to do their job.
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DR WU QIANG, CHINESE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: The public intellectuals and the public both
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realised that Dr Li represents the conscience of China. He was suppressed from the beginning
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from telling the truth. He could have saved the livelihood of tens of thousands of people,
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or thousands of people's lives. But all this was concealed due to the authority's suppression
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of free speech. I believe the public expressed their dissatisfaction with the government
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by commemorating him.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: The death toll reaches a critical milestone ... numbers
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overtaking the killed by SARS.
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HOSPITAL WORKER (in Mandarin): How can we take any more patients in here?
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What else can we do? I don't know what you can do.
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What about these patients lying here?
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Many patients are lying on the ground. It is full here.
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Woman (in Mandarin): Three bodies have been lying here all morning.
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Some of them died in the middle of the night.
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But until now, nobody has come to handle it.
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Doctors and nurses are all working under these conditions
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WUHAN HOSPITAL WORKER (in Mandarin): Okay you have seen him, just keep going.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: After being conspicuously absent, President Xi emerges on state media
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to assert his authority.
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XI JINPING, CHINESE PRESIDENT: Ni Hao! Let's not shake hands in this special time. But
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we must have confidence that we will overcome this crisis.
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RICHARD MCGREGOR: Xi has really lost control
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of the narrative, and he's struggling to get it back. Now if that goes on, if they don't
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get on top of the virus, then that can really damage his image I think, even with ordinary
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Chinese people, and that has potentially profound implications, because two, three years down
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the track, when he's meant to be reappointed, maybe his enemies will use this against him.
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DR WU QIANG, CHINESE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: So, the people directed this kind of dissatisfaction
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directly to Xi himself and Xi's style of governance which is I believe the most serious threat
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to Xi Jinping. This is because the foundation of his power is based largely on populism
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and the loss of this populist foundation will undoubtedly destabilise his position in the party.
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NEWSREADER: Australians still trapped in the coronavirus epicentre in China are tonight preparing
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for a second attempt at an evacuation flight to Darwin.
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TIM MCLEAN: There is a seat available for my partner Qiong and myself on the next available
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flight out of Wuhan, which apparently is leaving at midnight tonight. We've got three or
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four hours to get to the airport. They've sent us- sent us all our passes, et cetera,
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so we can get through the checkpoints. It's all confirmed. We've got the emails.
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We've got the thumbs up. So, we're out of here. We're heading home.
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Can't wait. And super excited.
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YING WANG: So, today's our last day in Wuhan. It's been a pretty long journey the past two
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weeks. More than two weeks we've been quarantined for more than two weeks. So, tomorrow we're
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going to get out and go to the airport and come back to Australia. So, it's still, it's
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still unreal for me.
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YING WANG: Reaching the airport toll gate, looks like we are in the checkpoint.
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It's 2.30, kids are not asleep. I'm super tired.
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We're still waiting. About half of the plane
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still waiting to be cleared of security and passport control and stuff.
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A lot of paperwork, a lot of screening, a lot of questions.
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Just very, very stressful really.
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Let's go! Out of here! Yes, we're out of here, going home.
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SEAN NICHOLLS, REPORTER: Tim McLean isn't on the flight. Quarantine restrictions mean
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he hasn't been able to get any transport to the airport. So, he's still stuck in Hubei province.
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TIM MCLEAN: I'm absolutely fucking petrified now. 1300 odd people are dead here.
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The police are actually knocking on doors and taking temperatures and if people have got a temperature,
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they're dragging them out, mate. You don't get a fucking say in it.
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You don't get an option.
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You get taken away and put with a bunch of other sick people.
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Not only are we in quarantine but it's beyond quarantine now.
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It's... I don't even know what to call it.
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It's quite terrifying knowing that people can knock on your door here and drag you out for
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no reason at all, because you've got a temperature.
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PROFESSOR SHARON LEWIN, DIRECTOR, DOHERTY INSTITUTE: At the moment we don't have a good
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understanding of the real mortality rate for the novel coronavirus. It's estimated about
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2 per cent. So if the mortality rate is 2%, if it's 1%, even if it's 0.5% and 300 million
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people get infected, that's a lot of people that could potentially die. Because if you
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think back into the Spanish flu, enormous numbers of people died, but the actual mortality
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rate was less than 1% but a huge number of people were infected.
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WOMAN: Help! My mother is dying! Someone come quickly! I have no way out!
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There is really no way out!
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Everyone, please help me! I have no other way!
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NEWSREADER: The World Health Organisation is this morning warning that the coronavirus
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could pose a greater global threat than terrorism.
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DR TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION: A virus can have
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more powerful consequences than any terrorist action. And that's true. And if the world
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doesn't want to wake up and consider this enemy virus as public enemy number one, I
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don't think we will learn from our lessons.
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PROFESSOR TREVOR DREW: We just don't know
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how this outbreak is going to develop, or how many people are ultimately going to be
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infected, or ultimately going to die from this disease. We don't yet know exactly how
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the virus is evolving. We don't know how many people are actually infected that
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are not revealed to be infected. And we don't know how many people are dying that are misdiagnosed
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as dying from other disease. So, this is a real problem for us to be able to make
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any real prediction, or to model the spread of this disease.
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PROFESSOR SHARON LEWIN: I think the worst case scenario
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is that we are unable to contain the virus, that we see sustained human-to-human transmission
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in many parts of the world.
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NEWSREADER: The World Health Organisation says the window of opportunity to contain
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the coronavirus outbreak is narrowing. The statement comes as concerns grow in South
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Korea and the Middle East about the number of cases. There have also been more cases
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confirmed among Australians evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan.
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TIM MCLEAN: So, I really don't know what the near future is going to bring. We've got no
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information about how long we're going to be in here. There's no indication whatsoever.
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I've got sick people living next door to me, I've got sick people above me, I've got sick
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people across the lane from me. Some of those people have got chains on their doors so people
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can't access them because they're ill. I'm hiding from a virus that you can't see and
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a government that you don't want to muck around with.
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