Unborn Baby Dies in Australia After CCP Virus Border Exemption Confusion

An unborn baby died this week after an Australian woman heavily pregnant with twins waited 16 hours for emergency care in Sydney.
Unborn Baby Dies in Australia After CCP Virus Border Exemption Confusion
Vehicle checkpoint on the Pacific Highway on the Queensland-New South Wales border in Brisbane on April 15, 2020. Patrick Hamilton /AFP via Getty Images
Isabel van Brugen
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An unborn baby died this week after an Australian woman heavily pregnant with twins waited 16 hours for emergency care in Sydney, allegedly after she was told she would be unable to cross the Queensland border due to CCP virus travel restrictions.

The family of the woman, who is from Ballina in New South Wales, claims she was forced to travel from Lismore to a hospital in Sydney after she was initially told she would be unable to obtain a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus border exemption to undergo surgery at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Brisbane, some 125 km (78 miles) away.
Isabel van Brugen
Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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