All borders to reopen.
Kraviator - from one of the planners, not me; "We know we are going to have occasional outbreaks because perfect HQ is not statistically possible. We then have to rely on the contact tracing system to protect us."
Please also understand that all Premiers are acting on medical advice.
Please also understand that all Premiers are acting on medical advice.
Hotel Quarantine WA
Members of the public are also welcome to book rooms at the Pan Pacific Perth, another quarantine hotel.
In a statement, a WA Health spokesperson confirmed two Perth quarantine hotels were open to the public, saying both had to "meet strict requirements" and ensure that "the hotel is clearly divided into two very separate areas".
In a statement, a WA Health spokesperson confirmed two Perth quarantine hotels were open to the public, saying both had to "meet strict requirements" and ensure that "the hotel is clearly divided into two very separate areas".
WA Premier Mark McGowan said the use of quarantine hotels by members of the public had been "queried at length" with medical advisors, and the advice was that "it is not a risk".
More than 2 million people endured a snap five-day lockdown in Perth and surrounding areas last week.
The shutdown was sparked by a single case of coronavirus contracted by a young security guard working at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel.
A review into the breach is ongoing and WA Health Minister Roger Cook has now made it mandatory for all workers in high-risk areas of hotel security to wear masks and eye protection.
More than 2 million people endured a snap five-day lockdown in Perth and surrounding areas last week.
The shutdown was sparked by a single case of coronavirus contracted by a young security guard working at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel.
A review into the breach is ongoing and WA Health Minister Roger Cook has now made it mandatory for all workers in high-risk areas of hotel security to wear masks and eye protection.
I’d bet London to a brick that the medical advice would have been remote quarantine.
Their political masters will have told the experts that’s not happening, make do with what you’ve got and provide ‘advice’ on the basis that hotel quarantine is the only option. That’s their ‘medical advice’. I suspect some politicians are regretting that decision, except the Feds who’ve managed to duck their constitutional responsibility with flair and aplomb.
The Holiday Inn/ Travelodge was a dive when it opened in the 70’s. It would be well past its use by date now and I can’t imagine the A/C would be up to scratch to prevent aerosol transmission either - as recent events would indicate all too well.
Their political masters will have told the experts that’s not happening, make do with what you’ve got and provide ‘advice’ on the basis that hotel quarantine is the only option. That’s their ‘medical advice’. I suspect some politicians are regretting that decision, except the Feds who’ve managed to duck their constitutional responsibility with flair and aplomb.
The Holiday Inn/ Travelodge was a dive when it opened in the 70’s. It would be well past its use by date now and I can’t imagine the A/C would be up to scratch to prevent aerosol transmission either - as recent events would indicate all too well.
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Remote quarantine, "controversial" a year ago...
"concerned about poor hygiene standards"
"too scared to touch their beds"
"worse than a prison"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-...sland/11927300
"concerned about poor hygiene standards"
"too scared to touch their beds"
"worse than a prison"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-...sland/11927300
short flights long nights
HQ is the problem. And it appears this new UK strain is showing positive after 16 days or more. Either we stop International Arrivals.. or we put them at isolated paces ( Christmas Island for example), for at least one month. 14 days it appears is no longer enough.
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Yes, I know very little about aviation having only worked for one airline and one defence/aerospace company apart from I.T, Government and the commercialization industry including sitting on the Board of a medical start up.
I received a private briefing from two key Covid investigators from the Peter Doherty Institute in March last year, the contents of which I shared on Pprune at the time which proved substantially correct.
The response I received then from one or two of your colleagues was exactly the same as yours.
If you continue to reject advice out of hand, no matter, or rather because of, the source, then you and your industry deserve your fate.
I still get tidbits, but I rarely share them.
Yes, I know very little about aviation having only worked for one airline and one defence/aerospace company apart from I.T, Government and the commercialization industry including sitting on the Board of a medical start up.
I received a private briefing from two key Covid investigators from the Peter Doherty Institute in March last year, the contents of which I shared on Pprune at the time which proved substantially correct.
The response I received then from one or two of your colleagues was exactly the same as yours.
If you continue to reject advice out of hand, no matter, or rather because of, the source, then you and your industry deserve your fate.
I still get tidbits, but I rarely share them.
Why not go the whole hog and feed the 1 meal a day of gruel and replace hotel rooms with metal bars...
It’s the hotel system that needs changing.
And once you've infected a healthy person during their stay in your quarantine hotel, do you then charge them for the following 3 weeks in quarantine / hospital?
Seems like an open door for a damages suit.
Seems like an open door for a damages suit.
The government is charging a hotel quarantine fee to arriving passengers. As you say, the door is open for damages, wide enough to drive a bus full of lawyers through.
I’d bet London to a brick that the medical advice would have been remote quarantine.
Their political masters will have told the experts that’s not happening, make do with what you’ve got and provide ‘advice’ on the basis that hotel quarantine is the only option. That’s their ‘medical advice’. I suspect some politicians are regretting that decision, except the Feds who’ve managed to duck their constitutional responsibility with flair and aplomb.
The Holiday Inn/ Travelodge was a dive when it opened in the 70’s. It would be well past its use by date now and I can’t imagine the A/C would be up to scratch to prevent aerosol transmission either - as recent events would indicate all too well.
Their political masters will have told the experts that’s not happening, make do with what you’ve got and provide ‘advice’ on the basis that hotel quarantine is the only option. That’s their ‘medical advice’. I suspect some politicians are regretting that decision, except the Feds who’ve managed to duck their constitutional responsibility with flair and aplomb.
The Holiday Inn/ Travelodge was a dive when it opened in the 70’s. It would be well past its use by date now and I can’t imagine the A/C would be up to scratch to prevent aerosol transmission either - as recent events would indicate all too well.
I heard an interview from an expert from ANU yesterday. He said remote quarantine was NOT feasible.
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I heard an interview from an expert from ANU yesterday. He said remote quarantine was NOT feasible.
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Take some time to read the breathtaking arrogance from someone who had over 800 people die from decisions he was responsible for
"I'm not having a go but......." What a load of horse****. Megalomainiac, narcissist, sociopath.
Also, you lot from other States wonder why NSW shakes their heads at you lot.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has insisted his state won’t take as many returned travellers as NSW because his quarantine system has “higher standards”.
“This is not about boasting, it’s just a fact,” Premier Andrews told a press conference on Monday.
Victoria is due to increase its arrival limit from 1,120 to 1,310 next week in response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison ending a temporary reduction of numbers nationwide. However, these figures are substantially lower than NSW, which will return its cap to 3,010.
“We will have less capacity because we have a different model and I lead higher standards,” said Premier Andrews.
“I can say it because it’s true. And whether that’s convenient for people or not, is not really my concern. There’s not 3,500 private security working in our system. Do I need to go any further than that?
“If I was to align many of the criticisms that have been levied, over a long period of time, with what we do now, I’m very confident that we have a system that is worthy of being copied by others, and it is.
“If it was anything other than one of the best systems – the AMA over in WA were calling it the gold standard – they’re not terms I use, but that’s what they said, if it was anything other than a good system, then I doubt very much that the first ministers across the country would have agreed to copy it.
“It’s not a point of criticism of anyone else. They can speak to their systems. I’m simply making the point that we will not be getting to 3,000, because I don’t believe that 3,000 would be safe. That’s my judgment, and I’ll be accountable for that.”
Premier Andrews also listed the improvements made to the system following last year’s second wave of COVID cases that killed 801 people and is thought to have originated from the hotel quarantine system.
“We’ve ripped out the air conditioning in a number of these places and put new systems in, we’ve changed the way air flows, we rip up the carpet in all the common areas … so hallways for instance, and lino is put down so we can clean shared spaces where there could be a transmission to industrial standards,” he said.
“No one else does this. There’s 50 other points where we do things differently, sometimes significantly differently, sometimes it’s a smaller thing, but when you add all that together, it’s a very risk averse model.
“It needs to be, and I can’t rule out further changes.”
Nationwide, from 15 February, the new limits will be:
Arrival caps were introduced in July and sat at 4,000, before increasing to 6,500 at the end of 2020 and then decreasing to just over 4,000 in January 2021.
Critics have argued limits have stopped Australians abroad being able to return home by reducing availability and increasing prices.
“This is not about boasting, it’s just a fact,” Premier Andrews told a press conference on Monday.
Victoria is due to increase its arrival limit from 1,120 to 1,310 next week in response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison ending a temporary reduction of numbers nationwide. However, these figures are substantially lower than NSW, which will return its cap to 3,010.
“We will have less capacity because we have a different model and I lead higher standards,” said Premier Andrews.
“I can say it because it’s true. And whether that’s convenient for people or not, is not really my concern. There’s not 3,500 private security working in our system. Do I need to go any further than that?
“If I was to align many of the criticisms that have been levied, over a long period of time, with what we do now, I’m very confident that we have a system that is worthy of being copied by others, and it is.
“If it was anything other than one of the best systems – the AMA over in WA were calling it the gold standard – they’re not terms I use, but that’s what they said, if it was anything other than a good system, then I doubt very much that the first ministers across the country would have agreed to copy it.
“It’s not a point of criticism of anyone else. They can speak to their systems. I’m simply making the point that we will not be getting to 3,000, because I don’t believe that 3,000 would be safe. That’s my judgment, and I’ll be accountable for that.”
Premier Andrews also listed the improvements made to the system following last year’s second wave of COVID cases that killed 801 people and is thought to have originated from the hotel quarantine system.
“We’ve ripped out the air conditioning in a number of these places and put new systems in, we’ve changed the way air flows, we rip up the carpet in all the common areas … so hallways for instance, and lino is put down so we can clean shared spaces where there could be a transmission to industrial standards,” he said.
“No one else does this. There’s 50 other points where we do things differently, sometimes significantly differently, sometimes it’s a smaller thing, but when you add all that together, it’s a very risk averse model.
“It needs to be, and I can’t rule out further changes.”
Nationwide, from 15 February, the new limits will be:
- NSW 3,010 (now 1,505);
- Queensland 1,000 (now 500);
- Victoria 1,310 (now 1,120);
- SA 530 (now 490);
- WA 512 (now 512);
- Total 6,362 (now 4,127).
Arrival caps were introduced in July and sat at 4,000, before increasing to 6,500 at the end of 2020 and then decreasing to just over 4,000 in January 2021.
Critics have argued limits have stopped Australians abroad being able to return home by reducing availability and increasing prices.
Also, you lot from other States wonder why NSW shakes their heads at you lot.
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Sticking healthy people in hotels with closed windows for 14 days and making them breathe recycled air with an airborne pathogen lurking is a recipe for disaster.
This is not going to end anytime soon.
This is not going to end anytime soon.
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Take some time to read the breathtaking arrogance from someone who had over 800 people die from decisions he was responsible for
"I'm not having a go but......." What a load of horse****. Megalomainiac, narcissist, sociopath.
You lot from other States wonder why NSW shakes their heads at you lot.
"I'm not having a go but......." What a load of horse****. Megalomainiac, narcissist, sociopath.
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I know mate, but finally that ****wit is putting on paper how much of an a-hole he is. Meanwhile, the 'I stand with Dan' lemmings will ensure he remains in power for some time to come.
Except Sunfish, he loves him 
Bro, almost anyone in the industry thinks he is a f#}kwit. Our thoughts won’t stop him getting re-elected though.