UK minister tests positive as deaths outside China pass 1,000–as it happened
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And before we leave that Australian press conference, one final word from the chief medical officer, professor Brendan Murphy, on the policy of not-testing for coronavirus people who are a) not symptomatic and b) haven't recently returned from overseas or been in contact with a confirmed or suspected case.
Murphy said:
We're not testing people without symptoms at the moment. There is no value in testing people without symptoms. Currently, our approach is testing - and that's the international approach - is testing people who have respiratory symptoms and who have been a returned traveller or who are a contact.
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