Let’s fix our quarantine system rather than leave our fellow Australians stranded,” senator Matthew Canavan tweeted. Prof Kelly advised there remained a “significant risk” of leakage from Australia’s hotel quarantine system, particularly from arrivals from India. “Australia’s quarantine and health resources needed to prevent and control Covid-19 introduced into Australia from international arrivals are limited. The government has insisted the travel ban on Australian citizens and residents who have been in India in the past 14 days is legal and necessary. He said it had been an “agonising” decision to put in place the determination, but the rate of infection was about seven times the level the hotel quarantine system could safely manage.

Source: The Irish Times May 03, 2021 08:26 UTC