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Passengers on a Tiger Air flight have been urged to contact health authorities after a man diagnosed with coronavirus travelled with the airline earlier this week.

Queensland Health today confirmed a 44-year-old man infected with the virus had travelled with Tiger Airways on January 27 on flight TT566 from Melbourne to the Gold Coast.

The man, a Chinese national and who is Queensland’s first confirmed case of coronavirus, was part of a tour group which spent about six days in Melbourne. It is understood the man fell ill on board the aircraft while he was travelling with eight other tourists, four of whom have fallen ill and are being tested for the virus.

Now, health authorities are trying to track down anyone who was on board the flight, noting that anyone who was sitting within two rows of the infected passenger would go in to quarantine.

“We are going to be contacting every single passenger on that flight,” Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said at a news conference today, adding that the passenger was in row 11 of the aircraft.

“We believe it had around 150 to 200 passengers but we’re getting confirmation on that.

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Dr Young said the man spent less than 24 hours inside a Gold Coast hotel, but their main concern is to contact people on board his flight.

“My concern is that those 150-200 people on that plane when he started getting symptoms and then his 24 hours in the Gold Coast community, I need to track exactly where he went,” Dr Young said.

“We have been working very closely with the Chinese consulate who have been excellent.”

Any person on the flight is being urged to contact health authorities on 13HEALTH for advice.

In a statement, Tiger Air said it was “in the process of contacting the passengers and our crew on this flight to notify them so they can visit their GP for testing”.

“The safety of our passengers and our crew is always our number one priority and we are working closely with the Queensland Health department on this matter.”

The man and another person on the same booking were in seat 11A and 11B.

The man arrived in Melbourne from Wuhan on January 22 from Singapore.

The last flight into Australia from China’s epicentre of the virus landed in Sydney on January 23.

In a press conference this afternoon, Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles said the man had been travelling in a group and a number of them had begun feeling sick.

“He was travelling with eight other companions and they have since been transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital, so that they can be supported,” Mr Miles said.

“A number of them are unwell and are being tested right now.”

Mr Miles again urged anyone on the flight to contact health authorities.

The 44-year-old man is being quarantined at the Gold Coast University Hospital.

“The man, who is from the city of Wuhan (Hubei Province), is stable,” Queensland’s chief health officer Jeannette Young said in a statement.

Dr Young confirmed the man arrived at his accommodation on the Gold Coast on January 27 just after 8pm.

When he “became increasingly unwell”, he called for an ambulance with the hospital confirming he tested positive for novel coronavirus late yesterday.

Concerns have also been raised by residents of a luxury Gold Coast apartment block after it was revealed the 44-year-old had stayed there.

Peppers Broadbeach resort, in the same building as the private apartment the 44-year-old reportedly stayed in, is owned by Accor.

In a statement, Accor said the man had not stayed in Peppers but the hotel had been following the guidelines issued by Queensland Health.

“Queensland Health today confirmed a person staying on the Gold Coast has the Novel Coronavirus. The person in question was not a guest at the hotel and was residing in a private apartment in the Oracle Building,” a spokeswoman said.

“Cleanliness and hygiene are always a high priority for us. On being alerted to a potential risk in the Oracle Building we acted immediately and carried out additional sanitisation protocols, which included more frequent deep cleaning and disinfecting of the areas that form part of the hotel.”

Peppers shares elevators and entrances with Oracle, a private residence building.

Health authorities has warned all travellers who have been in contact with coronavirus to self-isolate at home for 14 days.

“This is a precautionary measure following new advice around the time frame that people may be contagious before showing symptoms,” Dr Young said.

The news comes after Health Minister Greg Hunt confirmed two Australians in China had been infected with the virus.

Mr Hunt said they are being treated and are not seeking consular assistance at this stage.

They were in Guangdong province, not Hubei province where the majority of cases have been located.

There are now seven confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia with four in NSW, two in Victoria and one in Queensland.

China’s women’s soccer team is also in isolation at a Brisbane hotel after arriving yesterday.

The team was recently in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The quarantine measures are a precaution. All 32 players and staff are so far well.

The move has thrown Olympic qualifying matches involving Aussie team The Matildas into turmoil.

The federal government has also revealed plans to evacuate Australians from Wuhan after about 400 citizens and residents registered for help to get out.

They will be flown to Christmas Island and put in quarantine for two weeks however the government is yet to get clearance from China to put this plan in place.

Qantas has offered an aircraft for the joint operation to be conducted with New Zealand; discussions are ongoing and China must approve the plan.

Some 170 people have died from the virus in mainland China, and the number of confirmed cases is now more than 7000. Most of the deaths have been in Hubei province.