The coronavirus crisis in Australia has deepened with a string of new cases and the first confirmed death prompting authorities to warn a local epidemic is inevitable. The death of Perth travel agent James Kwan, 78, on Sunday came as four more people were diagnosed with the virus, with health agencies scrambling to contact passengers on board multiple flights two of the infected were travelling on. Mr Kwan died at Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Sunday after contracting the illness while quarantined on board the virus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. His wife Theresa, who also caught the virus and is at the same hospital in a stable condition, was forced to say goodbye to her husband using a phone and separated by a glass wall as he lay dying in his quarantined room. ‘My husband passed away peacefully knowing that his family loved him,’ Mrs Kwan said in a statement on Sunday night. Travel agent and industry ‘legend’ James Kwan, 78, is Australia’s first fatality as a result of the coronavirus Mr Kwan, who was the first Australian to die of coronavirus, is seen getting off the plane in Perth after he was transferred from Darwin on February… Read full this story
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