While avoiding responsibility for the troublesome program may be politically savvy, the question has to be asked whether it is the best approach for the country.
Ventilation must be a key priority for facilities housing sick and infected people because it is instrumental in preventing airborne transmission of diseases, says International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health Professor Lidia Morawska.
Concerns are being raised by health professionals who are flagging airborne transmission as a possible method of transmitting the coronavirus within hotel quarantine facilities – after several workers contracted the virus.
“If infections occur at a distance but with people who have nothing to do with each other, it is very difficult to explain it in any other way,” Professor Morawska told Sky News.
She said facilities – such as hotels – were subject to mechanical ventilation which is not designed to cater to the strict health regulations required for the hotel quarantine program.
Professor Lidia Morawska, director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at the Queensland University of Technology wants quarantine to be led from Canberra and has called for a review of every hotel providing quarantine in Australia.
âSo, here we are again. The most important aspect is acknowledgement at the top level in Australia that airborne transmission is a main route of transmission in general. This is the golden rule: hazard, not recognised [will] never be controlled and they are stubbornly refusing to recognise this hazard,â Professor Morawska said.
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â[Airborne transmission] has been rejected, rejected and rejected, even though it is so obvious.