In Australia people are lining up for the chance to buy a fresh delivery of toilet paper, as preppers have cleaned out the normal supplies on shelves.

The global death toll from #coronavirus could reach as high as 15million even in the best-case pandemic scenario, a new study says. The research by the Australian National University also found that global GDP could shrink by as much as $2.3trillion even in what they call a 'low-end' pandemic. In the most disastrous scenario, the death toll could reach a staggering 68million including hundreds of thousands of deaths in Britain and the United States. In that worst-case pandemic, some countries' economies would shrink by as much as eight per cent in a global meltdown. The two researchers who published the paper, Warwick McKibbon and Roshen Fernando, warn that 'even a contained outbreak could significantly impact the global economy in the short run'. In the so-called 'low-severity' case, the death rate in China is estimated at around two per cent and adjusted for other countries.

Italy set to quarantine whole of Lombardy due to Coronavirus:

The Italian government is to lockdown the northern region of Lombardy, as it battles to contain the spread of the coronavirus. A draft decree would extend the quarantined areas, so-called “red-zones”, ordering people not to enter or leave the region.

The country is grappling to contain Europe’s worst outbreak of Covid-19, which has claimed 233 lives and infected a total of 5,883 people.

Reports that this images was taken at a Lombardy train station where residents are trying to escape the quarantine before it comes into effect.

A demonstration on how important it is to wash your hands with soap for a full 30 seconds.

This is one of the most effective ways to avoid infection.

Mad Max toilet paper brawl:

Police have charged two women for an alleged fight over dwindling supplies of toilet paper in a Sydney, Australia supermarket.

Police said they were called to a Woolworths store at Chullora about 7am on Saturday after reports a 49-year-old woman had been assaulted.

A video of the incident was shared on social media and showed a small group of women pushing, yelling and fighting over a shopping cart filled with toilet paper.

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Public health expert warns coronavirus ‘could kill 60 million people worldwide’

A leading public health expert who spearheaded the fight against SARS has warned that up to 60 per cent of the world’s population could become infected by the new coronavirus.

Professor Gabriel Leung, chair of public health medicine at Hong Kong University, is an expert on coronavirus epidemics and played a key role during the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003.

Mr Leung warned that COVID-19 is “certainly more infective (than SARS), and it’s also very difficult to try to control it”.

“The big unknown now is really how big is the iceberg,” he said.

There have now been more than 106,000 confirmed cases globally and nearly 3600 deaths since the start of the outbreak in December, a mortality rate of around 3.4 per cent.

“I don’t know, but I’m suspecting that (there are many more people infected),” he said.

“Everybody is susceptible, eventually you will see 40, 50, 60 per cent of the population get infected.”

All of Italy is now on lockdown:

The whole country of Italy is now on lockdown, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced at a news conference on Monday. 

Citizens may face the prospect of military checkpoints.

Conte said the measure was taken in order to protect citizens, especially the most fragile individuals. 

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Long line of people panic buy at supermarket after Italy announces countrywide lockdown.
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