There now 103 confirmed cases off Corona virus here in Australia is the operate continues to spread around the nation.

A short time ago, the health authorities in Victoria confirmed three new cases.

They're bringing that states total number tow 18.

We'll have the latest from our reporter on the ground in Millburn.

Shortly this afternoon, we also saw the federal government announced it will review travel advice for Italy after that entire country was placed into effective, locked down overnight.

All public gatherings of being banned schools have been closed until April, while extra travel restrictions are in place there.

This was Russia are in Milan, but it didn't look like it.

Most people were avoiding public transport, many choosing to work from home in an area of Italy hit hardest by the virus.

The city is Italy's financial capital, and the stock exchange did at least managed to open a CZ normal.

Although banks have been preparing for days tow, avoid disruption.

16 million people in north and central Italy were already in lock down, banned from leaving unless they have a very good reason and are similar measures are to be implemented across the entire nation.

This, the Italian prime minister said, was the stay at home decree juiced.

Oh gee, indeed, a set of Casa.

The decision today is fair that all of Italy should stay at home.

The future of Italy is in our hands now more than ever.

It's not just travel that's restricted in Milan, and that more than two dozen jail's inmates protested after all visits were banned.

The government, desperate to avoid the Corona virus spreading within the prison system and adding to an already overburdened health service, Cremona Hospital in the North Star for struggling to deal with sheer number of people affected with the virus, a situation replicated at hospitals right across the worst affected areas in Italy.

Enforcing the new curbs on people traveling in and out of affected areas is a logistical nightmare.

At Rome's main station, police officers met trains, which is still traveling from places like Milan and Venice.

In the lock down zone, anyone arriving from territory now in quarantine had to provide their details and justify their reason for making the journey.

A decree covering Rome says any travelers from the affected areas will have to self isolate, but that will be difficult to enforce, which is why the government is threatening jail for anyone flouting the ban on movements.