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12.43am GMT
The University of Tasmania, in Australia, has warned staff and students that a woman who tested positive to coronavirus visited the library of their Sandy Bay campus on Monday, 9 March.
In a statement, vice-chancellor Professor Rufus Black said:
A woman in her 30s has tested positive for coronavirus in Tasmania. She is currently in a stable condition in the Royal Hobart Hospital.
It is Tasmania’s third confirmed case of coronavirus. The other two cases remain in medical care and are stable. This latest case is not related to either of the previous cases and is not due to local transmission in Tasmania.
12.40am GMT
The Australian stock market has given the thumbs down to the Morrison government’s stimulus package.
Shares, which were already down about 2% when Australian prime minister Scott Morrison and treasurer Josh Frydenberg began talking at around 10.35am, fell as the politicians spoke.
Within 10.50am the benchmark ASX200 was down 3%. After some choppy trade, it was off by 2.9% at 11.30am.
The package relies heavily on money for business, which gets around three quarters of the stimulus, and while there is cash for people on benefits the amount is less than that handed out by the Rudd government during the global financial crisis and there is nothing for workers without families.
