Tag: Hotel Quarantine
Australia’s international borders to reopen from November. It’s one big step towards living with COVID
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“Australia will be ready for takeoff very soon” said Prime Minister Scott Morrison today as he announced the ban on international travel...
A mining camp won’t cut it: Australia’s quarantine system needs a smarter design
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The announcement that the Victorian and federal governments will build a 1,000-bed COVID quarantine hub at Mickleham in Melbourne’s north marks a welcome...
Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit for purpose’
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With Melbourne under lockdown for another seven days, the consequences of Australia’s inefficient and dangerous quarantine system continue.
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More than a dozen COVID leaks in 6 months: to protect Australians, it’s time to move quarantine out of city hotels
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In the past week, at least six Australians returned home uninfected only to acquire the coronavirus while undergoing quarantine in hotels...
Here we go again — Perth’s snap lockdown raises familiar hotel quarantine questions
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Perth is the latest Australian city to head into a snap lockdown aimed at stamping out a coronavirus cluster resulting from...
What’s the risk if Australia opens its international borders? An epidemiologist explains
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Coinciding with the Trans-Tasman travel bubble starting today, over the past week there have been murmurings Australia could soon relax its borders further, through...