Coronavirus Government Global Briefing: March 16

Welcome to Global Intelligence Briefing, Mandarin Premium’s morning update on everything in local and global government responses to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Australian researchers call for a disability response package

Leading health and disability researchers at the University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, and University of Sydney have called on the federal government to enact a targeted response for the disability sector akin to their aged care package.

Noting a horrific report of a Chinese teenager with cerebral palsy dying of starvation after his brother and father were quarantined, the group has issued 20 recommendations directed at a) people with a disability; and b) the service sector’s “precariously employed and inadequately trained care workforce”.