Eighteen returned travellers have been moved from Peppers Hotel to the Pullman Hotel in Adelaide amid concerns they may have been exposed to COVID-19 after toddler tested positive.
A coronavirus leak from the Mercure Hotel in Perth last week led to a three-day lockdown of Perth and Peel. Western Australia did a ventilation audit in March and found the Mercure was high-risk. Despite having been mandated by the federal government, thereâs no national standard for how quarantine is implemented. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP
A coronavirus leak from the Mercure Hotel in Perth last week led to a three-day lockdown of Perth and Peel. Western Australia did a ventilation audit in March and found the Mercure was high-risk. Despite having been mandated by the federal government, thereâs no national standard for how quarantine is implemented. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP
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To protect Australians, it’s time to move quarantine out of city hotels
In the past week, at least six Australians returned home uninfected only to acquire the coronavirus while undergoing quarantine in hotels in Sydney and Perth.
Author Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute
One traveller left a hotel after 14 days in quarantine and moved around Perth for five days before taking a flight to Melbourne, where he tested positive to COVID-19. This led to a three-day community-wide lockdown in Perth and Peel.
By now, this is all feeling fairly repetitive. Since a COVID case leaked from the Peppers Hotel in Adelaide in November, there have been 16 leaks across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
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Adelaide business owner concerned about impact of nearby COVID-19 medi-hotel
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Tom s Court Hotel became SA s dedicated COVID-19 facility on February 15.
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The opening of a new dedicated COVID-19 medi-hotel in the heart of Adelaide has caused angst among some nearby residents and business owners, despite health authorities saying it poses no significant risk to the general public.
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Nearby residents are concerned about the location and lack of consultation
SA Health says the hotel is well-placed to manage the risk of transmission
The Tom s Court medi-hotel, located off Halifax Street in Adelaide s CBD, is now open for returned travellers who test positive to COVID-19.