Opinion
The virus outbreak from an Adelaide medi-hotel shows that all staff working in such quarantine facilities should be tested not just weekly – as ordered only after the fact – but daily, argues epidemiologist Catherine Bennett. And increased pay for those staff must be discussed to avoid them having to work at other sites and risk infecting others.
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Victoria has recorded five new cases of coronavirus, all linked to a cluster in Melbourne’s northern suburbs that has forced some 500 people into quarantine.
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SA’s former top bureaucrat has resigned as head of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrew’s office after phone records revealed he spoke to the head of police as the state’s hotel quarantine program – held responsible for a second wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths and forcing Melbourne into months-long shutdown – was hastily set up.
Scott Morrison has rejected calls to bring thousands of Australians stranded overseas home on air force planes.
The agency responsible for enforcing Australia’s international borders is pushing back against growing calls to establish a federal quarantine facility for returning travellers.
Queensland’s chief health officer admits death threats and online trolling have taken “an enormous toll” on her but she will maintain strict quarantine measures to protect the state from COVID-19.
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