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Old 14th May 2021, 21:47
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C441
 
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Originally Posted by CFD
Actually no..... the NT government has been very clear about this. We can cope with a maximum of 100 positive cases in Howard Springs and no more than one or two that require intensive care beds without crashing our one and only public hospital in Darwin which does not have many intensive care beds at all. If too many test positive they will slow down the number of Indian arrivals.... after all we are a tiny jurisdiction of only 250,000 people.
And that is another reason why regional quarantine centres are not practical. Many parts of regional Queensland (and probably other states) are struggling to get medical staff to cover day-to-day practices before even considering how you would get medical staff to man a quarantine centre, spend 2 weeks in quarantine/isolation themselves after their 'shift' and have a few weeks off before starting the cycle again.
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