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Long-term UK resident Jane Quick with her mother Ellie.
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Jane Quick is one of the lucky ones.
She has a flat in West London and a good job with caring employers who allow her to work from home and the office to help maintain her sanity .
But the 20-year resident of the United Kingdom hasn t seen her family for two years and would desperately love to come home for three months.
Ms Quick said she never planned to stay away so long but had a job she loved and put down roots overseas.
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Authorities in Australia have responded swiftly to contain potential outbreaks of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19.
On Thursday 7 January, a cleaner for a hotel quarantine facility in Brisbane tested positive for the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant, first sequenced in the UK in September, which has now reached at least 45 countries.
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The variant has previously been detected in returning international passengers in hotel quarantine, but this is the first time someone had unknowingly been in the Australian community while potentially infectious.
The following morning, with no further positive cases, Queensland state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced a short, citywide circuit-breaker lockdown affecting some 2 million residents.
Australia s National Cabinet decision to make face masks compulsory across all parts of the aviation sector is a common sense approach. A recent survey commissioned by the AAA showed the majority of travelling Australians would be more confident to fly if face masks were mandatory. Key details include:
83% would wear a facemask travelling domestically;
71% would be more confident to fly domestically if facemasks were mandatory;
89% would support mandatory facemasks in international airport terminals;
82% were willing to undergo a rapid COVID test before travelling internationally.
The online survey was completed by 500 Australians between 14-Dec-2020 and 18-Dec-2020. [more - original PR]
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