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New directions have come into force overnight for South Australia’s medi-hotel workers, formalising nationally mandated daily saliva testing and work requirements for the state’s frontline quarantine workers.
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Yet another case of a medi-hotel worker testing positive to COVID-19 is more evidence that overseas arrivals should be quarantined in purpose-built regional locations away from mass population centres, argues Adrian Esterman.
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EXCLUSIVE | Health authorities are reviewing the case of an Adelaide patient who tested positive to the new ‘UK strain’ of coronavirus, after she lodged a complaint about her treatment alleging SA Health bungled her quarantine and care arrangements.
South Australia will reopen to residents of Greater Sydney at 12:01 am on Sunday, January 31, a month after an increase in NSW COVID-19 cases prompted SA authorities to shut them out on New Year’s Day.
South Australia will keep its border open to Victorians, despite the eastern state today reporting three new locally acquired coronavirus cases, but Premier Steven Marshall has ruled out opening up to New South Wales until it records 14 days without community transmission.
Victoria’s former health minister has accused Premier Daniel Andrews of “political deflection” over the bungled hotel quarantine program which led to the virus escaping, killing 800 and sending the state into a three-month lockdown, while the former police commissioner says whoever made the private security call was “determined to stay anonymous”.
The report into Victoria’s hotel quarantine bungle has revealed disturbing insights into the processes and “ruthless incompetence” of the state government and bureaucracy during a public health emergency, argues Mirko Bagaric.
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