Australia requested its first school conclusion on Friday following a 16-year-old understudy tried positive for the coronavirus, as the nation's PM cautioned the open bill for treating tainted patients could top A$1 billion ($661 million).
Head administrator Scott Morrison said he has written to Australia's state governments to make an A$1 billion reserve to treat coronavirus patients, however he forewarned more cash might be required.
Australia has recorded 60 instances of the coronavirus while two older individuals have passed on from the infection as specialists battle to contain the flare-up.
Morrison in late February said a worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus was likely, and on Friday he point by point the medicinal services costs just because.
"We are assessing dependent on the exhortation that we have right now this could be as much as about A$1 billion," he said.
"I trust it isn't that much. It could be more."
While most of those contaminated in Australia gotten the infection abroad before getting back, the episode is presently spreading locally.
A 16-year kid in Sydney, Australia's biggest city, turned into the most recent to be analyzed.
Edgy to guarantee the coronavirus doesn't spread, the New South Wales government requested the conclusion of Epping Boys High School in the city's north for at any rate one day, the nation's first school conclusion because of the episode.
Wellbeing authorities said the almost 1,200 understudies and staff should isolate themselves.
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