Dr Ian Norton

There is nothing to fear.

As long as people home isolate, manage their symptoms, and the moment they have symptoms, they get tested and see if they're positive.

It's when we lack that control, we don't know enough about the disease, for example, or we don't know where everybody's gone, that's when we should worry.

And that is not the case here.

So I definitely would reassure people.

And I do feel for the company and the people involved as well, it's become almost a sideshow.

And it's good to highlight outbreak preparedness and things, but I think in some cases it goes a little far.

And I reassure everybody, this is not going to become an epidemic or a pandemic.