think that that's peter greste of a live from brisbane palestinian authorities have confirmed the 1st cases of coronavirus in gaza the health ministry says the 2 palestinians returned from pakistan on thursday and were under quarantine all restaurants coffee shops and mosques were ordered to close following the announcement singapore plans to my apologies i believe we can go to difficult pollen for the latest on the situation in singapore which is planning to ban all short term visitors from entering or transiting through the country from tuesday to control the spread of corona virus stevia while more can you tell us about the situation in singapore. that's right kim the singapore government is taking drastic measures to protect its borders they say most of the cases they're seeing are now people from overseas in fact 80 percent of the infections in the past 3 days were imported cases so what they're doing now is closing down the borders as you said not allowing transit passengers or short term travelers from going through cases in singapore have doubled in the past 2 weeks singapore

south wales and victoria are shutting down non-essential businesses for the next 2 days journalist peter greste says governments are starting to take a harsher approach. saying at the moment it is a new south wales government and they 'd are also 'd announcing a closure of all essential services so that includes things like restaurants bars clubs and so on. keeping open supermarkets keeping out of petrol stations delivery services and so on so that we get the basic supplies that we need . they still talking about closing down schools we haven't had that sen order on that at this point but we're also not seeing the kind of lockdown we've seen also in places like your hand obviously. and italy but we are moving in that direction a lot of the borders the state borders of also closed the west australian government has announced it's closing its borders only arrivals will have to spend 2 weeks in isolation and they're joining the governments of tasmania south australia and northern territory. and of course as you mentioned the government is also awarded the closure of sydney's most iconic bache is b