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  • A grieving mother from China has been granted a visa to come to Melbourne despite the Corona virus travel ban.

  • The exception has been made on compassionate grounds after her son was critically injured in a car crash.

  • Emily Rice has the details.

  • 22 year old tourist Xiao Li has been on life support in the Royal Melbourne Hospital following a car crash 11 days ago.

  • While friend Angus has been at his bedside, Mr Lee's mother in China was blocked from seeing her son by Australia's streaked Corona virus travel ban the first time I met him in the hospital him.

  • Now, in an unprecedented move, the acting immigration minister has intervened.

  • Mr.

  • Lee's mother, she England Ren, will be exempt from the two week ban on arrivals from China so she can take her son home.

  • Sadly, he's been declared officially brain dead.

  • I can announce today that Jolly's mother has been granted that tourist visa and so she will be coming to Australia, Minister Touch says.

  • This is an exceptional case and border force personnel will work closely with medical experts to ensure Miss Wren's rapid entry poses no public health risk.

  • We're going to work very closely with her to ensure that she could nevertheless see her Sadam properly.

  • Take care of the funeral arrangements.

  • Friends say it's a humane response given Mr Lee is an only child.

  • He only found his family and his father passed in a way where he will Yeah.

  • Nine.

  • News understands the young tourists Organs will be donated, potentially saving several lives.

  • The minister is also encouraging continued support of Chinese Australian communities.

  • This includes visiting areas such as restaurant precincts, where members off that community tend to congregate.

  • Others want the travel bans scrapped altogether.

  • The Australian Chinese workers collective, doubling the policy racist during a rally this afternoon.

  • But for Mr Lee's family and friends, it's a somber time.

  • Yeah, I felt very sad.

  • Emily Rice nine News Five more Australians onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have contracted the potentially deadly Corona virus.

  • Chris Ok, furs in Yokohama.

  • Chris, where are those Australians now?

  • We'll paint The infected people have been taking the hospitals all around Japan, and that's because the local facilities here are now fall.

  • The passengers on board have all been given thermometers and told to regularly take their own temperature and if it's higher than usual reported and they will be tested.

  • And as you can imagine, all of this is causing a lot of anxiety.

  • The Corona virus on the Diamond Princess is doing exactly what they feed.

  • It would spreading like wildfire On now, seven Australians onboard have courted.

  • They're being transferred to medical facilities in Japan, as the other two were, and there quite a number of other Australians on board that ship her in quarantine.

  • 41 paper were marched off the ship and two Japanese hospitals the total number of infected passengers.

  • Now, at 61 it could be made Sally next.

  • Who knows?

  • Small groups of people have been allowed out of their cabins to get some fresh air.

  • The quarantine officials require that you avoid congregating in large groups, maintain a separation of it least one meter from each other.

  • But otherwise they confined to what must feel like a prison cell Got the bridge cam on the TV on, so he sort of conceding outside.

  • But other than that, with muscle sense of time, those with balconies using them to call for help, this sign says there's a medicine shortage evacuating Australians from the ship, though, is off the cards.

  • The Japanese authorities.

  • I have an advanced till system they're dealing with.

  • What's a very difficult situation?

  • Serious concerns now hanging over our cruise ship industry, with thousands of passengers still coming and going across the country were worried about whether other cruise ships and two of groups elsewhere might be affected as well.

  • In China, the government is describing Wuhan as under wartime, conditions on order has been made to round up more than 25,000 infected people and place them in immediate quarantine.

  • Plus, the temperatures of 11 million citizens will be checked every day.

  • To put it bluntly, we're shadow boxing.

  • We need to bring this virus out into the light so we can attack it properly.

  • A doctor, Li from China, has also died from the virus.

  • The 34 year old was the first to blow the whistle on the emergence of Corona Virus On was reprimanded by the Chinese government for spreading rumors.

  • 7200 mosques and 4000 thermometers are now onboard that so the crew can continuously test passengers for symptoms like a fever cough, runny nose that can quickly turn in to a severe pneumonia.

  • We've been asked to monitor our temperatures on a regular basis.

  • The virus can spread easily, just like other respiratory illness by an infected person.

  • Sneezing or coughing.

  • Local Japanese hospitals are full of Corona virus patients, including the seven Australians on.

  • They're ready for another wave as more people on this ship inevitably test positive in Yokohama, Japan.

  • Chris.

  • Okay, if nine news Yeah.

A grieving mother from China has been granted a visa to come to Melbourne despite the Corona virus travel ban.

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