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Cases in UK and US rise as quarantine hotel in China collapses trapping dozens
- US deaths rise to 19 as New York declares state of emergency
- Coronavirus quarantine hotel in China collapses, trapping dozens
- Thousands held on cruise ship off US west coast as scientists say: ‘This is now a pandemic’
- ‘If I catch the coronavirus I’m screwed. Gig economy workers can’t afford to be ill’
We are only just starting to see the scale of the economic effect that the coronavirus will have on the tourism industry. Aaron Smith filed this report on what is happening on the ground in Cairns, a Queensland town that relies heavily on international tourism, particularly Chinese tourists.
One travel agent told him:
Without a doubt everyone is feeling the pinch of the coronavirus, 100%. I don’t have any figures but just from conversations with people they are all suffering, a lot of suppliers are having problems.
You just have to look at the number of specials businesses are offering at the moment. That tells you straightaway numbers are down and that people are struggling ... A lot of the hotels here are doing it tough. I know of one large hotel that is running at under 10% occupancy.
A not surprising phenomenon:
As a side bar, it’s interesting that even in the midst of #covid19 & the global efforts to create a vaccine, Victorian state politicians are still getting spammed, daily, by dozens of emails from anti vaxxers objecting to mandatory vaccination of frontline health workers. Bizarre
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