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People trying to enter Tasmania via its ferry service will be turned away unless they have a good reason in a move to clamp down on coronavirus cases entering the state. Premier Peter Gutwein told reporters on Tuesday the measure to stop people boarding the Spirit of Tasmania would be added to its mandatory 14-day quarantine requirement already in place. “In terms of TT-Line, as of today there is a hard-line position in place that unless you're an essential traveller, or a Tasmanian returning home on the TT-Line, you will not be travelling with us,” Mr Gutwein said in a press conference. Read more:  https://au.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-tasmania-announces-it-will-turn-away-ferry-arrivals-233154917.html

Employers in the hospitality sector were scrambling to develop plans to either stand down hundreds of thousands of workers or lay them off, as restaurants, bars and clubs shut their doors at noon on Monday. One of the largest employers, Crown Resorts, which employs an estimated 18,500 workers and contractors, made a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange on Monday afternoon. The hotels attached to Crown’s casinos in Melbourne and Perth will remain open, but all gaming and restaurants will shut under the government’s orders to limit the spread of Covid-19. Read more:  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/23/job-losses-from-australias-coronavirus-shutdown-will-be-devastating

The guidelines for testing for COVID-19 will be changed this week to drop the overseas travel component, as the coronavirus spreads. "We'll be removing the traveller component, but we're working on that at the moment," Australia's deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly told ABC TV's Q&A program on Monday, He said there would be announcements on the test changes this week. Read more:  https://www.sbs.com.au/news/coronavirus-testing-guidelines-in-australia-are-about-to-change

The coronavirus is about to destroy the scale of economic data. What we was considered a “bad case” scenario or even indicative of times requiring stimulus no longer even computes. So quickly are things turning we almost need a new language to explain it. One of the most common aphorisms among those dealing with data is that “the trend is your friend”. It is a nice way to note that generally when you see data – such as the unemployment rate – jumping around, the trend, which is essentially an averaged representation of the data, helps you see through the noise. Read more:  https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2020/mar/24/when-it-comes-to-unemployment-in-australia-definitions-have-been-broken