We re already seeing why hotel quarantine is our most bonkers Covid policy yet
No other country in the world has copied Australia s quarantine strategy at this late stage of the pandemic – with good reason
18 February 2021 • 3:18pm
A passenger enters Heathrow s Holiday Inn: We’re not even building a fort – merely erecting a few rickety gates
Credit: Steve Parsons/PA
Staggeringly, the Government has gone and done it again. It has implemented a Covid policy that causes the absolute maximum damage for the teeniest, tiniest possible gain. There have been many examples of this (lockdown as a whole, I’d argue) but surely our new hotel quarantine scheme takes the biscuit.
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Small holes make for big problems in pandemic Australia
Australian Society of Anaesthetists president Dr Suzi Nou holds an N95 mask. Credit: Jason South, published in the Australian Financial Review
Following COVID-19 outbreaks stemming from quarantine hotels across Australia, Burnet’s Professor Mike Toole AM and Burnet’s Professor Brendan Crabb AC provided comment for this opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review.
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Small holes make for big problems in pandemic Australia
Little things matter a lot in managing COVID-19. So why isn’t Australia’s hotel quarantine system focused on extra-easy precautions like the use of N95 masks for all hotel workers?
Infectious diseases experts remain quietly confident Victoria’s snap lockdown could end on Thursday, despite new cases and lingering concerns about contact tracing
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Hotels flee quarantine program over brand damage
Andrew Tillett
Top hotels are pulling out of the quarantine program amid growing industry fears that the spate of recent coronavirus outbreaks leaking out via staff is causing reputational damage to operators.
At least a dozen hotels have withdrawn from the program, including Sydneyâs Five Star Hilton and InterContinental hotels, and Melbourneâs Marriott, sparking warnings an assistance package may be needed to help the sector rehabilitate its image.
As some states and epidemiologists ramp up calls for quarantine centres to be established in regional areas, Accommodation Association chief Dean Long said it was âdisrespectfulâ that Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and others tarred hotels by attaching their name to specific clusters.