says that the university of sydney says that the fallout will knock off more than 113 milliont. the bbc‘s phil mercer reports from sydney. with so many of their friends stuck reports from sydney. with so many of theirfriends stuck in reports from sydney. with so many of their friends stuck in china, law stu d e nts their friends stuck in china, law students abby and lauren are the lucky ones. abby flew to sydneyjust before the travel restrictions were imposed. while karen spent thousands of dollars circumventing the van, travelling via thailand. of dollars circumventing the van, travelling via thailandlj of dollars circumventing the van, travelling via thailand. i am so frustrated when the travel ban was imposable because a lot of my friends are still in china and enjoy the holidays with their family but they can't come back any more. very frustrating. we felt like it is the trail to our students. to continue my education, i will be so happy. chinese students contribute $10 billion to australia's universities. the coronavirus outbreak showjust how dependent australia gate univ

all right, thank you for your time, from the university of sydney, professor robert booy. taken a hit in the last few days, and that's particularly upsetting for young children who have had their birthday parties cancelled. but one party organiser, who dresses up as a disney princess, is using technology to keep the magic alive. david sillito reports. social distancing. a life indoors. it's not much fun, especially if you are three. indoors. it's not much fun, especially if you are threem there is germs all around you can't go outside so we have to stay indoors. are you ready, everyone? #do everyone? # do you want to build a snowman. . . # come on let's go and play... but one thing hasn't been cancelled. jessica kingsley is today elsa from frozen, and she has found a way to give little harry his birthday party on time. harry started asking me in december to have a frozen party and we were looking forward to it, counting down the days since february. so the fa ct the days since february. so the fact that we managed to have one was just unbelievable. # let it go, let it go..

this is the focus of research here in australia at the university of sydney. margaret morris runs a laboratory where rats are fed the kind of junk food that you find in supermarkets for cheap fast food restaurants. erik's parents use a range of western foods at the time they can buy all of us so we feed our rats meat pies chips cakes and biscuits this. sorts of foods that are vettel e-file of oil and sheep so we'll modeling the western world. the 1st consequence of this diet the rat doubles its food ration is. beyond amount never seems to share. but that's not the most surprising outcome. after. one of our chief interests is the impact of his diet on the animals memory and we can measure this is really in the rat using a task known as the novel object and novel place tosk. in this test the researcher places objects in the rat's cage. the animal comes over immediately to examine the. rodents are very curious by nature. once it's completed its examination and memorized its surroundings its temporarily removed we then place the animal in the arena with one object

professor ian hickie is co—director, health and policy at the university of sydney's brain and mind centre aspects of common mood disorders. thank you for being on the programme. depending on where viewers are watching us right now, and we are broadcasting globally, they have experienced different things, for those in wuhan for example, it has been weeks and weeks of lockdown. what is your advice for those who are facing this challenge of isolation? we all now face more physical isolation, so the challenge used to be more socially connected, behaved cohesively and behave in ways that are good for all of us as we go forward, and that is really challenging when you feel under threat, when you can see that physical threat, you can see the infection and you are worried about your economic future as well. have you been surprised by some of the behaviour you have seen around the world? culturally, depending on which country, people react in different ways to the crisis. what we're seeing is that different cultures, societies, have different strengths and different strengths and different weaknes

politics at the university of sydney. rld's biggest lockdown sees india stocks go from they are expensive to extremely cheap in one fell swoop. this is bloomberg. ♪ let's do a quick check of the latest business headlines. haslinda: is said to be in talks to raise a new $5 billion loan with a majority of two e years. several companies are asking for additional liquidity. honeywell tells bloomberg it still has access to the commercial paper market and it's pension is overfunded. disruption from the virus and slumping demand has forced the idling of almost all auto plants in the united states. workers and60,000 includes 42 of 44 factors across the country. the auto sector has asked the government to delay supply chain rules in the usmca to ease the fallout from the virus. yvonne: we are counting down to the market open in india where the country will suspend all domestic flights. india's lockdown has caused an unprecedented stock plunge. a day it was yesterday. dave: crazy, crazy. 11%. drop all 50 stocks. we have -- yesterday

universities so that can happen. let's take one of your questions now. stephen in sydney asks...urrently declaring a pandemic, they have declared an international health emergecnty. they say there are linked epidemics in different parts of the world, mainly in china, south korea, iran and italy. in other countries, they say it is still containable, it is still containable internationally at this time and at the moment this is not a pandemic. if you speak to some other scientists, they are saying that we are transitioning into that period of a global pandemic if we are not in one already. the world health organization says practically what we do, nothing will change if we call it a pandemic and that mightjust panic people and some countries might say, it's here now, there's not we can do when there is still a lot countries can do to contain this. so, this is one of the key things, isn't it — what can we do? how can we minimise the chance of catching coronavirus? well, the bbc‘s michelle roberts and laura foster have some ideas. number one, wash your hands more. the more you wash y

epidemiology health care infection at infectious disease control at the university of new south wales she joins us now live via skype from sydney thanks for being with us i'll put the same question to you as i put to a correspondent a moment or 2 ago what lessons can other nations learn from italy's experience with the virus what did it really get wrong and what is it done right. is that the time line that you can say gave us a big hint that when they lock down the country and the long body area they should have actually put in place social distancing instead the community good restaurants coffee shops between 6 am and 6 pm but they should have done is lock it down and prevent anyone from going out socialising let them go to the bank and to get their food but that's it so could nations like the u.s. and the u.k. be looking at a situation like it's only as in the very near future. absolutely and i think france is on a precipice of becoming like italy. you know italy well i did have the same numbers france has now just on the 11th of march and now of course it's an unprecedented increase so france needs to take note of this and m

sydney that. that jools point off is a professor at pacific university an author off power games of political history of the 11th thanks he says has been an increasing amount of global pressure to cancel this year's event we're witnessing a remarkable upsurge in athletes seeking out against the international olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus situation and in that sort of leadership vacuum you've seen athletes and sports bodies rise up and what canada has done just moments ago is absolutely remarkable basically it's a defacto boycott they're saying they will not attend the olympics in tokyo this summer if they happen this summer absolutely remarkable it depends on how the coronavirus is corralled or isn't but at this stage many people are giving the olympics a 2nd thought in terms of attending it it all depends how it perceives the pace of the coronavirus right now there are the cases of coronavirus in japan itself are still rising and so who knows what the case will be a year out hopefully everybody starts practicing social distancing in a very rigorous wa

sydney. you are watching bloomberg markets: asia. we are going to talk more about the coronavirus. that has spread to 65 countries. we are joined by darrin is the stanford university director ofa health policy program. we have the world health organization warning that the window is closing to contain the coronavirus. can it be contained? allo this crisis reminds us of how the world is globally connected, interconnected very whether he goes from epidemic to pandemic, we have to prepare and take steps. already quite fermentable. some people say steps have been taken and that has slowed the spread, but it is a new virus. that constrain dashcam strain any-- that can strain health care system. there could be a wider spread including community spread which could lead to pandemic. we have to prepare as if it is a once in a century pathogen, although we hope it won't be. paul: can you tell us about the methods that are used to contain the outbreaks like this, including tracing people who might have come into contact with people who have had the virus? how difficult is that to put into practice? can be very difficult. at the center of outbreak when you don't know what the pathogen is