'No medical reason' why state borders are closed: Deputy CMO

"We did a lot of work and continue to do a lot of work at the international border and I still believe that was the very best decision that was made on February 1, to start to decrease the number of people coming from high risk countries at that time and eventually all countries and bringing the virus to Australia."

Professor Kelly said Australia is lucky enough to be dealing with only a relatively small number of cases as the nation records approximately 650 active cases. Queensland Police stop vehicles at a Police checkpoint set up at the Queensland and New South Wales border. Police officers and Royal Australian Navy personnel are seen stopping drivers at an intrastate checkpoint south of Perth on April 10, 2020. The WA Government enforced strict intrastate border closures prohibiting all non-essential travel with people without an exemption being turned back.

Of those active cases, just 45 are in hospital. Nine people are in intensive care, seven of whom are on ventilators."And indeed over the last couple of days very few cases outside of Melbourne and Sydney and so most of those cases indeed are related to overseas travel and people coming back from overseas and into the 14 days compulsory quarantine."

Rather our borders closed than have cases dribbling in... Get some common sense about how to avert the spread ... Isolation works ... W.A... would have to be the safest place in Oz thanks to MarkMcGowanMP & his staunch caring team... 👍😁👏👏👏

Australia will not bow down 🇦🇺

All working together ! We did for say a month or so now it is the same political crap. We should learn from this disaster that our system of Government needs an overhaul. Imagine going to war. Qld - I’m not sending Queenslanders !!

Maybe a medical reason isn’t needed... maybe just common sense

Under Australian Public Health Act, ANY Public Health Directives MUST BE EVIDENCE BASED. It is ILLEGAL for the Government to enforce any restrictions that ARE NOT evidence based. This FAILURE by the Government, REVOKES THE HEALTH ORDER DIRECTIVES. Your Welcome.

And we have the dim witted opposition leader in Qld (Deb Frecklington) saying “we need certainty and clarity”. No lady what we want is the borders open.

‘No medical reasons’ - open borders than there’ll be a reason - 2nd wave of COVID19.

Stuart Marsh. | One ☝🏼 of | 'That's for the states and territories themselves to decided when that time is right for them.' - in the meantime medical staff will trial covid medication for a month. Before handing to police to trial. auspol

They also were sweet with the footy right up til hours before the weekend.

Why does Nine never ever show any gonads? Does it have to do Peter Costello and Liberal party fundraisers? Give the USA some banter. The US are current;ly stupid and deserve banter. JustinTrudeau Germany, EmmanuelMacron nzlabour BorisJohnson, South Korea, Japan. JEChalmers

What if we open border, and the virus outbreak massively, will he pay for the responsibility? And how can he pay for the responsibility? speak not hard but if relate to live and death? The cost could be a freslife? If happens will he resign? Or What?

I think it’s important we let the media hyperbole dictate policy

AnnastaciaMP MarkMcGowanMP WeAreInThisTogether So if the nations top health advisors have not recommended this, WHY WHY WHY covid_19

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