Returned travellers who test positive for coronavirus during their mandatory 14-day stay in Melbourne hotels are being moved via ambulance to a CBD facility dubbed the "hot hotel" by security and health staff working for the state.
But due to failings in the system, there have been outbreaks at two of the hotels – the Rydges on Swanston and the Stamford Plaza – with 34 security guards, hotel staff and people with whom they have had contact testing positive for COVID-19. The hotel where patients are moved to is referred to by security staff and healthcare workers as the city's "red" hotel – although someA spokeswoman for Health Minister Jenny Mikakos confirmed that people who tested positive to coronavirus during their two-week mandatory hotel quarantine "are sometimes moved to alternative locations to better accommodate their health needs while they are infectious or unwell".
Until now, security at the quarantine hotels has been done by private firms, including Wilson, MSS and Unified. Hundreds of new passengers have come in from overseas on Wednesday and Thursday, and they have been accommodated in the quarantine hotels. The patients are transported to the hotels via SkyBus, and those that test positive for coronavirus are given the option of being transported by ambulance to the "red" hotel where more specialised staff care for them.
Doing a test before travel will reduce stress on quarantine. As of August 1, 2020, travelers who test negative for coronavirus less than 72 hours before travel to Hawaii will be able to avoid the state’s mandatory quarantine. This will apply to both residents and visitors
Who are these returned travellers? How are there so many? What have they been doing for the past 4 months? They can’t be all be tourists who got stuck overseas. Theres something being conveniently left out here. Media not interested either...
Here’s the Australian corona virus facts! 103 Dead with a median age of 79!
About time . In Iceland they do the swab and blood test on arrival . Last week they had 7000 tourists enter only two people had to do a strict hotel quarantine. They were the people determined to be contagious Others allowed to enter . Intelligent governance .