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How do we detect if coronavirus is spreading in the community?

Written by Joanne Macdonald, Associate Professor, Molecular Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast

The daily number of new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) cases is now nine times higher outside China than in the country where the disease was first detected.

In Australia, reports this week of local transmission of the coronavirus, which causes the disease now called COVID-19, are a turning point in our disease management.

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