on the number of australian residents who can return from overseas. that s driven up the cost of airfares and left tens of thousands of australians unable to get back. those who have made it back are taken into mandatory hotel quarantine for 1h days. with me is our reporter courtney bembridge who has been following this story since the start of the pandemic. thank you very much for coming in and chatting. now while these rules have undoubtedly saved lives, many lives, they have had some devastating consequences, haven t they? i spoke earlier this morning to a western australian man named james. he was living in belgium with his girlfriend, she is bulges that make belgian. and he got the call from his family to say he needed to get home asap because his mother was not well. he tried to get onto a flight that day, there were none from belgium. he tried to go through amsterdam, through germany, he was unable to get a flight back to wa, to perth
are going at a very, very slow rate and in the meantime having adopted a zero covert approach they do need to keep the hotel quarantine. there have been called time and time again for purpose built facilities these take time and it is a race now to try and get the country vaccinated because there has been no covid, there is no herd immunity there is no infection, previous infection may give people antibodies. it is crucial that the vaccines and administered by the country s prime minister has a time and time again it is not a race and there has been a lot of vaccine hesitancy that they are going up hesitancy that they are going up against in australia. thank ou so up against in australia. thank you so much. up against in australia. thank you so much, courtney. - up against in australia. thank- you so much, courtney. courtney reporting for us on the situation in australia. next to canada where unmarked graves have been found next to a former residential school. it is not known how man