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S and one other who returned from Iran have tested positive.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has called an urgent meeting off the Security and Emergency Emergency Management Committee for tomorrow, discussing ways to best fight the spread of the virus.

This is an important global health issue and I hope everyone can come together and we can't continue to prepare for the global pandemic.

This is a time for national unity that is my absolute focus.

We are working very closely with all of our stakeholders with all levels of government to make sure that we can do everything possible to keep Victorian safe in W way.

Authorities have confirmed the sixth case of the virus, the Sun, off a woman who traveled to Melbourne.

As the cases continue to rise.

The state government says it's working to open three clinics specifically designed to deal with those experiencing symptoms off the disease.

The way these these are clinics will work is that they're available to anyone who's experiencing flu like symptoms have traveled overseas in the in the recent past have come in contact with someone who has traveled overseas or who believe they may have come in contact with someone who has had a positive diagnosis.

So we're expanding.

The role of these clinics are from when we announce them on the weekend.

You understand the situation is constantly changing and we're adapting the cohort of people that we use that make these clinics available to on on an as needed basis.

Health authorities are warning that there has been a sharp upturn in the number of cases outside China.

They're urging Australians to take a sensible and practical approach.

The chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy, says the majority of cases in Australia are from return travelers rather than from person to person transmission.

And they're urging knives have been overseas and experiencing flu like symptoms to visit their doctor approx approximately.

I think 60,000 of 109,000 have now recovered, and that is a really important thing to note that 80% plus of people with this disease have very, very mild disease.

That's probably one of the reasons why large outbreaks developed in countries like Iran and Italy in South Korea because cases might have seated from China in January and they spread in the community without people really noticing it.

People probably thought they just had colds or mild flu like illness.

It wasn't until some people got severe disease and died that it was realized that this case had spread.

So for the majority of people who contract this disease, and this is what we've seen in Australia, it is a very mild condition.