The Victorian government is in final negotiations to contract more hotels to its hotel quarantine program, despite existing sites sitting almost empty and no indication when international flights will be allowed into Melbourne again.can also reveal that the government wants its alternative quarantine facility outside of metropolitan Melbourne to be built and hosting most of the state’s returning travellers by September or October, with Avalon Airport still the frontrunner.
In the meantime, hotels in Melbourne’s CBD will at some point resume hosting returned Australians, who have not been arriving since Premier Daniel Andrews blocked international flights in mid-February in response toOn Friday, a government spokeswoman again refused to detail when flights would return to Melbourne, stating it was “appropriate that international arrivals remained paused” until a team led by Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng has finished a review of the new, more infectious...
The city’s 15 quarantine hotels remain contracted on multimillion-dollar deals that are costing the state about $1 million a day – a price that will grow once new hotels are brought into the program. Yet 12 are non-operational and only flight crews plus a handful of exempted travellers and local cases who cannot isolate at home are using quarantine hotels.
Premier Daniel Andrews blocked international flights in mid-February after another COVID-19 leak out of a hotel.In a sign the return of international flights may be imminent, two sources familiar with the negotiations said management of the Novotel/Ibis Melbourne Central, built in 2018, were deep in discussions with the state government, who view the hotel favourably because of its modern facilities.she had not signed a contract with the government.
Source: Holiday News (holidaynews.net)
Just goes to show that this government won't let us live for another 10 years since the need for more quarantine facilities. 'Living' with it or more like letting it take over 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Please don’t. The rest of us want hotels we actually want to stay at in Melbourne.
Morrison’s responsible for quarantine and borders and has done nothing leaving it for the states to do all the heavy lifting and taking on all the risks
Please DanielAndrewsMP provide clarity HQ dates. I’ve had 5 cancelled flights - without a reopening date airlines won’t rebook us and I can’t afford £5k to change. I just want to see my mum one last before her cancer takes her. I beg you, strandedaussies are Victorians too
Why, when the jabs should be well & truly covering the population by then?
Some sort of explanation needed here. $1m a day for a non operational “gold standard” hotel quarantine system 🤷♂️
Last time they “stepped off a flight and into the holiday inn” across the rd look what happened just DanielAndrewsMP lining his mates pockets again doggy as they get
The focus needs to be on faster vaccination rollout. by August all Victorians should be vaccinated. CSL will be producing a million vaccines a week Need to pick up from 10,000 a week to 50,000 a week by May with mass vaccination centres not GP clinics.
Great, a new white elephant putting the state further into debt and ticking the necessary box of helping out Daniel Andrews' mates.
The custom built facility is a waste of tax payer money. He should focus on how to expand the daily vaccination capacity up from a minuscule 10,000. And by utilising existing infrastructure ie stadiums.