Students who have arrived from China to study at the University of Wollongong have either completed, or are currently completing a 14-day isolation period.
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A spokesperson said the university was following all Australian Government and NSW Health guidelines in its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
"Since the first advice of the coronavirus outbreak, UOW staff have been in contact with all students who have, or were due to, arrive from Hubei Province and now more broadly mainland China," the spokesperson said.
"All have either completed, or are currently completing, a 14-day isolation period.
"There are currently no suspected or confirmed cases of coronavirus at UOW."
On February 1 the federal government announced that: "effective immediately, foreign nationals (excluding permanent residents) who are in mainland China from today forward, will not be allowed to enter Australia for 14 days from the time they have left or transited through mainland China".
There are currently no suspected or confirmed cases of coronavirus at UOW.
- UOW spokesperson
Regardless of the disruption these travel restrictions may cause, the health, safety and wellbeing of all students, staff and its communities remains the university's paramount concern.
"Following this announcement, UOW has acted to protect the campus and wider Illawarra community by exceeding the government's community safeguards," the spokesperson said.
"UOW has asked all students and staff who have arrived from any mainland China in the 14 days prior to the government's February 1 announcement to also isolate themselves for a period of 14 days from the date they departed mainland China and not attend university during that time."
Prior to the February 1 announcement, 14 days of self-isolation was only required for those who had travelled from Hubei Province, China (this includes the city of Wuhan), which UOW had also enacted.
"UOW Accommodation Services has policies, processes and facilities available to assist students who are required to sustain a period of isolation.
"UOW is working with NSW Health to ensure that students or staff serving self-isolation periods in private accommodation are doing so in accordance with NSW Health guidelines."
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Meantime, the Sydney Morning Herald reports Australia's education industry is facing an $8 billion hit from the travel ban on visitors from China as the sector grapples with how to confront the wider effects of the deadly coronavirus.
International Education Association of Australia chief executive officer Phil Honeywood said the entry ban on non-citizens who had been in mainland China was a worst-case scenario for universities, English-language colleges and schools relying on the arrival of 200,000 Chinese students this year.
"Most of the new and continuing students have been caught off guard because many were brought home to celebrate Chinese new year," he said.
"The industry is worth $39 billion a year and if we take Chinese students out of that equation for first semester, you would be looking at a minimum $8 billion budget hit for the international education sector and the wider economy."