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Coronavirus crisis: Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s COVID-19 update

The West Australian
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will hold a press conference in Canberra with the latest on the global coronavirus pandemic.

A passenger in their 60s from the Artania cruise ship who was being treated in a WA hospital for COVID-19 has died, taking the State’s death tally to three.

WA will become its “own country” and shut its borders to all overseas and interstate travellers from midnight on Sunday.

The new “hard border” will stop any international visitor or Eastern States resident from travelling to WA unless they first obtain specific exemptions that will only be granted on work, medical or compassionate grounds.

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