Should Australia halt repatriations from the UK over new coronavirus strain?

The new coronavirus variant believed to have originated in the UK has health authorities around the world on high alert and cancelling flights from the country.

At least five cases have been detected in Australia, including two in NSW, two in Victoria and one in South Australia, though all cases so far have been in hotel quarantine and have not spread to local transmission. Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly likewise cited Australia’s strong hotel quarantining program when defending the government’s decision to continue to allow returning travellers from the UK.

Following the emergence of a new variant of the coronavirus, numerous countries are suspending flights from the UK.Australian health experts agree that while our border control and quarantine system isn’t perfect, we will remain better protected from the new variant than people in countries reporting high caseloads and with looser border restrictions.

Dr Stephen Parnis guesses COVID-19 would have been through millions of variants worldwide over the last 12 months.Public health physician Associate Professor Nathan Grills at the University of Melbourne says the decision by some nations’ governments to ban flights from the UK is an “overreaction” and likely to be politically motivated.

“Our objective is to keep the virus out full stop, at least until there’s a vaccine, and I don’t think it matters if it’s a more dangerous virus or a more infectious virus. Our objective remains the same. “Different variants are cropping up all the time and if we keep reacting to every new variant it’s not practical or tenable.

Virus is getting in because of travellers. One would think OH that's where we concentrate our prevention efforts. But no, this makes way too much sense 🙄

Fake new strain of fake virus. hoax plandemic Viruses are not contagious. Best way to get a virus into body is by injection...oh wait

Cruption NSW Government! We are residents of Kingsgrove near bus depot. A mad woman screaming through loud speaker every day; We can't sleep rest well. Waste water leaking to street; We complained to Andrew, Gladys many years; woman screaming,black water still running.

We shouldn't be taking any people from overseas until theyve been vaccinated.

Oh nah hotel qurantine has it under control...or rather if something goes wrong they can blame Andrews again with the media's full backing. It worked a treat last time...

Yes!

So please allow me to see my partner, We have been waiting and patient a lot for 12 months. Please open the borders for international couples too!! LoveIsNotTourism Don’t force us to stay apart so long anymore 😭😔😔

Australian should not be worried. We got Gold standard state and best contact tracing team in the world.

The SO CALLED health experts e.g. Brendan Murphy🙄🙄 Get in the bin, we should use our common sense and STOP all flts ex the UK petri dish

WA and Queensland already pissing in their pants 🤣🤣

If it was acceptable government policy to put refugees in isolated remote holding sites, a similar strategy should used with Australian returnees

Def

Australia should ,

Yes. Not just UK, but ALL repatriations, not worth the risk to 25 million Australians because the Nigerian, Sth African and UK strains are spreading rapidly to all continents BECAUSE other nations are too weak kneed to close their borders to all international travel.

No, these are Oz citizens who need to come home, not random travellers. What we need to do is tighten up on the quarantine procedures!

funny how being an island is not the absolute protection we thought it was going to be, because ‘planes’

Because of the government myth, that Australia has it all under control...too many of us actually believe this crap.

I love reading comments defending the govt. Makes me realise just how easily the majority of the population can be manipulated.

Well a High court JUDGE, does say different, because the W.H.O couldn't PROVIDE any SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL EVIDENCE in court that COVID-19 exists. Wtf!!! No Covid.

Of course Australia will let them in. They are fast running out of excuses to keep people locked up. The health 'experts' are complicit in this scam and when it is properly exposed need to be held to account by the people they are claiming to protect.

Yeah because 'experts' have been right about pretty much everything so far🙄

We absolutely need to, we've had a second wave brought on by complacency, let's not have a third

Yeah it really should - we don't want that strain running loose.

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