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The Queensland health minister, Steven Miles, spoke just now in Brisbane now about the latest coronavirus case in Australia, which is a 63-year-old woman who recently returned from Iran.
The woman flew back on Monday, 24 February, and was not unwell on the flight. She began to feel unwell on Thursday, 27 February, and authorities are trying to trace anyone who may have come into contact with the woman while she was working as a beautician on the Gold Coast on Thursday.
It’s a very brief interaction so the risk is very low.
If you didn’t go to that salon then there is no need to have any concern at all.
If you are unsure about the seriousness of the coronavirus — and there has been some fairly confused information about this — science correspondent Hannah Devlin has busted some of the most common myths.
For one, she writes that while we do not know a precise fatality rate for Covid-19, current estimates are a fatality rate of about 1%.
This would make Covid-19 about 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu, which is estimated to kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people a year globally.
Related: Yes, it is worse than the flu: busting the coronavirus myths
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