JOURNALIST: Minister, is the Government being advised of, or will the Government extend current travel bans?
GREG HUNT: So, look, that is an important question. The Prime Minister said that will be reviewed this week. But the Prime Minister, myself, the Chief Medical Officer, have indicated that the situation in China is ongoing and so we don't want to set a false expectation, but that is likely to change yet, at this point. JOURNALIST: With that ban, would it be another two weeks, do you do it week by week, do you say a month?
GREG HUNT: Look, we follow the medical advice.
BRENDAN MURPHY: I think we will- we’re going to have a very serious consideration of that at the end of this week. Authorised by Greg Hunt MP, Liberal Party of Australia, Somerville, Victoria. And I think the important thing is whatever period is put in place, we are reviewing this every day, and if the situation changes, we'll provide advice to Government on a daily basis as necessary, because everybody understands the huge implications of these travel bans, and if there's any reason or basis for relaxing them, that advice will come as soon as it's there.
The travel advisory that DFAT gives remains in place until it changes and we're not indicating that that is about to change.
And the Prime Minister has given guidance, the Chief Medical Officer has given guidance; I've given guidance.
And the existing DFAT advice is level four - which means do not travel to China at this stage and there are the other quarantine restrictions in place. And so, that remains the case and we're not indicating that it's about to change. We're considering all of the other options, but just to finish - to say that the quarantine arrangements are working. We can never guarantee that there won't be additional cases. That's why we have these arrangements, but today in particular, we are reaching out to and supporting Chinese-Australians and saying to people that the shopping centres, the restaurants, these circumstances are safe and we'd encourage you to go about your daily business.