On Sunday morning the Premier announced that returned travellers who refused coronavirus tests would now face a fine and have to spend an extra 10 days in hotels, taking their total stay to 24 days.
One of the new cases announced on Sunday is associated with an outbreak at the Stamford Plaza in Melbourne's CBD, one of the quarantine hotels. “The risks involved in any hotel quarantine arrangement are but a tiny fraction of what would have presented if we had simply sent the best part of 20,000 people home after having returned from overseas, and run a kind of honesty policy where we assumed they were not leaving their home,” Mr Andrews said.
Victorian Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton said authorities needed to wait five or six days to see if recent interventions had an effect on the spread of the virus. Professor Sutton said these often large families and more-crowded households created a higher risk of the disease spreading, but he and Mr Andrews warned against vilification of individual groups.
aishamae Why would anyone refuse a test?
aishamae Fine them and make them pay for the hotel and the security required.
aishamae I’m guessing NSW returning travellers (3% rejection of testing) had kids too and aishamae
aishamae How about detaining them until they do? These idiots are taking the p*ss.
aishamae Andrews is carrying on like there’s a bioweapon on the loose
aishamae So we can expect the serial idiots that criticised Andrews for strict lockdown laws, then blamed him for the recent spike will now blast him for this!
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aishamae At their cost.