10 things you need to know this morning in Australia

1. As the coronavirus outbreak worsens outside of China, hopes of containing it are diminishing. It has now spread to at least 40 other countries. South Korea, Italy, and Iran in particular have all seen a dramatic spike in cases. Health experts say this is a critical week to contain the spread of the virus.

2. There are now more cases of coronavirus outside China than in – a key indicator that it is approaching pandemic level. “Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time,” the World Health Organisation’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday. “The primary objective of all countries with cases must be to contain the virus.”

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