Quarantine hotels to be overhauled to stifle spread Victoria’s quarantine system has been revamped to create a buffer between rooms as fears grow over the spread of coronavirus.
Health by Matt Johnston, Grant McArthur, Alex White and Brigid O’Connell 6th Feb 2021 7:16 AM
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Subscriber only Victoria s quarantine system has been overhauled to create a buffer between hotel rooms containing large families, in a bid to reduce the risk of infection spread. More than 100 rooms have been removed from use this week, since returned travellers in two rooms who never crossed paths somehow passed between them a mutant UK coronavirus strain at the Park Royal Hotel.
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Perth is latest city to suffer a COVID quarantine breach. Why does this keep happening?
A lack of national standards and a stubborn resistance to taking aerosol transmission seriously are just two reasons these breaches keep happening, Professor Mike Toole AM writes in The Conversation.
Here’s a newspaper headline from May 27, 2020: “Worker at Melbourne quarantine hotel tests positive for COVID-19”. And here’s one from yesterday: “Coronavirus lockdown announced for Perth and South West after quarantine hotel worker tests positive.”
Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and now Perth have all seen the coronavirus escape from quarantine. Why does this keep happening, especially given the harsh lessons learned from Melbourne’s outbreak?
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Tokyo Olympics plan is tempting disaster
The International Olympic Committee’s push for the Tokyo Olympics to proceed in July despite Japan’s massive third wave of COVID-19 defies public health logic writes Professor Mike Toole AM in the Fairfax media.
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By Michael Toole
The International Olympic Committee’s announcement that “there is no Plan B” for the Tokyo Olympics and they will proceed in July, despite Japan’s massive third wave of COVID-19, defies public health logic. The very best that we can expect is a XXXII Olympiad in front of empty stadiums and a torch relay on empty streets.
Article originally published in The Conversation, by Professor Brendan Crabb AC and Professor Mike Toole AM. In the midst of the anxiety over the latest.