How will Australia respond if the coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic?

Experts say it’s time to start using the ‘p-word’, and people with medical conditions should ‘get ahead’ on their prescriptionsAs cases of human-to-human transmission of coronavirus rise outside of China health experts in Australia argue a global coronavirus pandemic “is very likely, if not inevitable”.Some say the world is already in the early stages of a pandemic, which is defined by the World Health Organisation as a disease spreading across two conti