Sydney — Australian defence personnel are being deployed to Port Hedland, one of the world’s largest iron ore loading ports, to help contain a coronavirus outbreak on a bulk carrier that last changed crews in the seafaring city of Manila.
Seventeen of the 21 crew of the carrier have tested positive for the virus, ship owner Oldendorff Carriers said...
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