On 9 March, the principal of Carey Baptist Grammar confirmed that one of the teachers at their Kew campus was infected with the virus. On 8 March, an 82-year-old man died, becoming the second death at the Dorothy Henderson Lodge aged-care facility and the third death in the country. (Photo taken after the 2008 Emmys in California.) Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson made international headlines in March 2020 after being hospitalised with the virus in Queensland. On 4 March, a second death was reported, a 95-year-old woman dying at a Sydney aged-care facility. He was treated at the Launceston General Hospital as he became the first COVID-19 case in Tasmania. Another confirmed case on this day was a 40-year-old man from Launceston who came back on 29 February from a flight which left Melbourne and landed in Launceston on the same day. The two cases were in New South Wales: one was acquired from a close relative and the other was a health care worker in Western Sydney. These two cases were acquired in Australia whereas all other previous cases were imported from another country.

On 2 March, four new cases were reported, two of which were the first cases of community transmission of the virus. On 1 March, Australia reported the first death from COVID-19: a 78-year-old Perth man, who was one of the passengers from Diamond Princess, and who had been evacuated and was being treated in Western Australia. The coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak resulted in panic buying (particularly of toilet paper), leading to empty shelves as seen here on 4 March 2020 in the Adelaide suburb of Paralowie, South Australia. There were 14 new cases in February, bringing the number of cases to 23. On 29 February, after a Queensland case of an infected person returning to Australia from Iran, the government extended the enforced quarantine to people who had been in Iran, requiring them to spend a fortnight in a third country before being allowed into Australia. On 27 February, the prime minister activated the Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), stating that the rapid spread of the virus outside of China had prompted the government to elevate its response. The number repatriated from the ship are included in the state totals as follows: Qld (3), SA (1), Vic (4), WA (2, one of whom died on 1 March). Twenty-four Australians were infected on the Diamond Princess cruise ship with eight being sent to Darwin for two weeks of quarantine. February 2020 Д«y 6 February, three returning members from a tour group in Wuhan were identified in Queensland. From 31 January, foreign nationals returning from China were required to have spent a fortnight in a third country before being allowed into Australia. On the same day, three other patients tested positive in Sydney after returning from Wuhan. The patient was tested and received treatment in Melbourne. On 25 January, the first case of a SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported, that of a Chinese citizen who arrived from Guangzhou on 19 January. Passengers were given an information sheet and asked to present themselves if they had a fever or suspect they might have the disease. On 23 January, biosecurity officials began screening arrivals on flights from Wuhan to Sydney.

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