Sydney restaurant slammed for ‘insensitive’ joke about the killer coronavirus outbreak
Restaurant is slammed for a ‘tasteless’ joke about the killer coronavirus outbreak saying it ‘won’t last long because it’s made in China’
Customers who walk into Cucina 105 are greeted by the tasteless message
‘The corona virus won’t last long because it was made in China!’ message reads
The image was shared to social media with people slamming the owner
The national total of people confirmed with coronavirus reached 12 on Saturday
By Sahar Mourad For Daily Mail Australia
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The owner of a popular restaurant has come under fire for an ‘insensitive’ joke about the killer coronavirus outbreak.
The joke was written on a display cabinet at Cucina 105 in Liverpool, western Sydney.
‘The coronavirus won’t last long because it was made in China!’ the message read.
‘The corona virus won’t last long because it was made in China!!!’ the message reads
The image was shared to social media with people slamming the owner for the message which has seen more than 200 people killed in China.
‘They think thousands of people dying is a joke,’ someone wrote.
‘Very poor taste of a joke,’ another commented.
‘The owner is stupid in running the business. End of story,’ another wrote.
‘Tasteless people to make jokes about something so serious. Surprising that a business would do this in such a prominent location,’ someone else commented.
‘A disgrace… will never go there now,’ another wrote.
The restaurant’s Google review page has also been inundated with people giving them one star reviews and calling them racist.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Cucina 105 for comment.
The image was shared to social media with people slamming the owner for the message which has seen more than 200 people killed in China
The national total of people confirmed with coronavirus reached 12 on Saturday as South Australia confirms two new coronavirus cases.
There are four confirmed cases of the virus in Victoria and New South Wales each, as well as two in Queensland.
The death toll has passed 200 in China, while confirmed cases of infection are edging towards 10,000.
AUSTRALIANS WITH THE CORONAVIRUS
NEW SOUTH WALES: 4
January 25
Three men aged 43, 53, and 35 who had recently travelled to China are confirmed to have contracted the disease.
Two flew in from Wuhan while the other arrived in Sydney from Shenzhen, south China.
They are being treated in isolation at Westmead Hospital and are in stable condition.
January 27
A 21-year-old woman is identified as the fourth person to test positive for the illness in NSW.
The woman, a student at UNSW, flew into Sydney International Airport on flight MU749 on January 23 and presented to the emergency department 24 hours later after developing flu-like symptoms.
She is being treated in isolation at Westmead Hospital.
VICTORIA: 4
January 25
A Chinese national aged in his 50s becomes the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Australia.
The man flew to Melbourne on China Southern flight CZ321 from Wuhan via Guangzhou on January 19.
He is now in quarantined isolation at Monash Hospital in Clayton in Melbourne’s east.
January 29
A Victorian man in his 60s is diagnosed with the coronavirus.
He became unwell on January 23 – two days after returning from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak.
The man was confirmed as positive on January 29 and was subsequently seen by doctors at the Monash Medical Centre. He was assessed as being well enough to stay at home.
January 30
A woman in her 40s is found to have coronavirus.
She was visiting from China and mostly spent time with her family.
She is being treated at Royal Melbourne Hospital.
February 1
A woman in her 20s in Melbourne is found to have the virus
QUEENSLAND: 2
January 29
Queensland confirms its first case after a 44-year-old Chinese national wass diagnosed with the virus.
He is being treated at Gold Coast University Hospital.
January 30
A 42-year-old Chinese woman who was travelling in the same Wuhan tour group as the 44-year-old man tests positive. She is in Gold Coast University Hospital in stable condition.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 2
February 1
A Chinese couple in their 60s who arrived in Adelaide from Wuhan to visit relatives are confirmed to have coronavirus.
CHINA: 2
January 30
Two Australians have been confirmed as having the virus in Wuhan itself. Australia has raised the travel alert level to ‘do not travel’ for the city of Wuhan – the epicentre of the outbreak – and for the entire Hubei province.
Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy says unless people have contact with someone who is unwell and has come from that part of China, there is no need for current concern.
