Originally Posted by The ABC
"What we know is that this sequence from this strain that is associated with this cluster is most closely linked to a returned traveller from overseas who arrived in the country on 1st December. It is important to know that we don't know how common that is in Australia. Obviously we are testing all of the returning travellers from overseas and we are accessing international databases to get some idea. But you can imagine some countries like the US, gene sequencing isn't their priority given the number of cases they have.
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So, if they arrived in-country on December 01, how is it they were not in the 2 weeks mandatory detention given it was detected on what, December 11? Yet another case of money talk$ and bull$hit walk$? "We'll quarantine at our multi-million dollar property at Palm Beach...We promise!
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