Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

[jakeseven7]

Bronze standard?



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QLD hotel quarantine workers not wearing masks

A Queensland woman who was quarantined at a Gold Coast hotel in December has questioned the protocols in place, saying she witnessed multiple staff not wearing masks.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said she saw cleaners and other staff who delivered food and items to quarantining guests not wearing masks during her 15-day stay.

Her comments come as Queensland Health and police investigate how a cleaner who has tested positive for the UK strain of COVID-19 contracted the virus from a returned traveller who was in quarantine at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane.

"The protocol seemed quite good [on the plane] getting off at the airport everyone was in masks, standard procedure," she said.

"But we did notice during our stay there, because there's a little peep hole in the door, that the people delivering our food and the cleaners who were cleaning opposite us, once quarantine people were leaving, nobody was wearing masks"

Queensland woman who stayed in hotel quarantine raises concerns over staff not wearing masks

A woman who was quarantined in a Gold Coast hotel says she saw staff, including cleaners, not wearing masks during her stay. It comes as Queensland Health investigates how a Brisbane cleaner contracted the UK strain of COVID-19 last month.

www.abc.net.au

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Bronze standard?


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QLD hotel quarantine workers not wearing masks

Queensland woman who stayed in hotel quarantine raises concerns over staff not wearing masks

A woman who was quarantined in a Gold Coast hotel says she saw staff, including cleaners, not wearing masks during her stay. It comes as Queensland Health investigates how a Brisbane cleaner contracted the UK strain of COVID-19 last month.

www.abc.net.au

Given everything in recent media, bronze would be too high an award......

 

[jakeseven7]

Will never understand why some states hold a daily presser when there is nothng to announce.

Because they talk about things other than covid..... it is a good opportunity for them to streamline messages into one event and get it into the media's hands. Have friends in media they say its great saves them so much time everything bundled into one door stop.

Plus I guess the public are jumpy, need to hear a few words even if its 'all ok nothing to see here'.

 

[Lynda2475]

Because they talk about things other than covid.

Those other things are rarely of any national significcance though, so dont really justify a live cross in other states.

 

[dajop]

Bronze standard?



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QLD hotel quarantine workers not wearing masks

A Queensland woman who was quarantined at a Gold Coast hotel in December has questioned the protocols in place, saying she witnessed multiple staff not wearing masks.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said she saw cleaners and other staff who delivered food and items to quarantining guests not wearing masks during her 15-day stay.

Her comments come as Queensland Health and police investigate how a cleaner who has tested positive for the UK strain of COVID-19 contracted the virus from a returned traveller who was in quarantine at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane.

"The protocol seemed quite good [on the plane] getting off at the airport everyone was in masks, standard procedure," she said.

"But we did notice during our stay there, because there's a little peep hole in the door, that the people delivering our food and the cleaners who were cleaning opposite us, once quarantine people were leaving, nobody was wearing masks"

Queensland woman who stayed in hotel quarantine raises concerns over staff not wearing masks

A woman who was quarantined in a Gold Coast hotel says she saw staff, including cleaners, not wearing masks during her stay. It comes as Queensland Health investigates how a Brisbane cleaner contracted the UK strain of COVID-19 last month.

www.abc.net.au

In my stint in Sydney hotel quarantine, the vast majority of the time, private security (who were based outside my door) were not wearing masks. At the airport, I noticed 3-4 of the dozen or so police/armed forces stationed between airport door and buses were not wearing masks (over their faces) either.

 

[Lynda2475]

Photos in today's paper re staff at the AO hotels shows them wearing ill fitting surgical masks (no N95 which should be the case in any high risk site) and no gloves.

The AO really shouldnt be going ahead, many Australians were bumped from flights due to the new arrival caps for the next month. If Vic has capacity for 1200 arrivals, that should be 1200 Australians, not priviledged tennis people (especialy given poor history of infections amongst even high profile players)..

 

[jakeseven7]

Those other things are rarely of any national significcance though, so dont rally justify a live cross in other states.

Thats a different point.... I guess you could write a letter to your TV station of choice if you have issues with what they do and don't cover in live crosses and how long they hang on the feed

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Photos in today's paper re staff at the AO hotels shows them wearing ill fitting surgical masks (no N95 which should be the case in any high risk site) and no gloves.

The AO really shouldnt be going ahead, many Australians were bumped from flights due to the new arrival caps for the next month. If Vic has capacity for 1200 arrivals, that should be 1200 Australians, not priviledged tennis people (especialy given poor history of infections amongst even high profile players)..

Let just see if a local case/outbreak arise as a result - then the thunder of the media can come on the Victorian Government’s doorstep.

Most likely someone will get it but daily tests might stop it spreading too far

It just occurred to me that’s why Vic was pressing for daily tests because they essentially had to with the benefit of holding the Australian Open (tennis).

 

[Must...Fly!]

The wording let the cat out of the bag and confirmed my thinking. The ITF has been seeking other suitors for the Open for years but the government keep spending money to keep it - on facilities too. Around $1bn spent over past 3 years I believe. Give it up this year and might not come back - lots of interest in A$ia

 

[james4321]

In my stint in Sydney hotel quarantine, the vast majority of the time, private security (who were based outside my door) were not wearing masks. At the airport, I noticed 3-4 of the dozen or so police/armed forces stationed between airport door and buses were not wearing masks (over their faces) either.

Lead standard?

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Thats a different point.... I guess you could write a letter to your TV station of choice if you have issues with what they do and don't cover in live crosses and how long they hang on the feed

I actually live in Vic, like may others, and so is local news for me. Strange as it may seem many here do like to know what is going on.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

It just occurred to me that’s why Vic was pressing for daily tests because they essentially had to with the benefit of holding the Australian Open (tennis).

They press for daily tests at every press conference, or at least they have every day for many many months now.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

QLD Presser.
2 cases in HQ.

No new local cases.

 

[Lynda2475]

SMH reports:

Returned travellers forced to spend another 14 days at Brisbane quarantine hotel at centre of outbreak fears

Returned overseas travellers due to be released from quarantine at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Brisbane on Wednesday remain in their rooms and are expected to be held for another two weeks.

A cleaner who worked at the hotel contracted the highly infectious UK COVID-19 strain last week, and police are combing through four days of CCTV footage to pinpoint the moment of transmission.

Geoff Crooks returned from the United States with his wife and the couple has spent 14 days in the Hotel Grand Chancellor. He was due to be released at 12.01am on Wednesday, but got a knock on his door at 11pm on Tuesday from two police officers.

"We were handed two more forms, which were quarantine directions saying you may be held for another two weeks and your new release date is January 26," he said.

Comment has been sought from Queensland Health.

 

[jase05]

Photos in today's paper re staff at the AO hotels shows them wearing ill fitting surgical masks (no N95 which should be the case in any high risk site) and no gloves.

The AO really shouldnt be going ahead, many Australians were bumped from flights due to the new arrival caps for the next month. If Vic has capacity for 1200 arrivals, that should be 1200 Australians, not priviledged tennis people (especialy given poor history of infections amongst even high profile players)..

I may be mistaken but I thought I heard a Vic government official state that the 1200 for the AO would be in addition to the regular Victorian cap

 

[dajop]

SMH reports:

Returned travellers forced to spend another 14 days at Brisbane quarantine hotel at centre of outbreak fears

Returned overseas travellers due to be released from quarantine at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Brisbane on Wednesday remain in their rooms and are expected to be held for another two weeks.

A cleaner who worked at the hotel contracted the highly infectious UK COVID-19 strain last week, and police are combing through four days of CCTV footage to pinpoint the moment of transmission.

Geoff Crooks returned from the United States with his wife and the couple has spent 14 days in the Hotel Grand Chancellor. He was due to be released at 12.01am on Wednesday, but got a knock on his door at 11pm on Tuesday from two police officers.

"We were handed two more forms, which were quarantine directions saying you may be held for another two weeks and your new release date is January 26," he said.

This would be awful, having done the stint twice, I can't imagine how deflating it would be when you are expecting freedom. Just awful.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Were the 2 from Lebanon counted as local transmission/cases???

From abc covid blog

Six cases in Queensland now linked to the 'highly infectious' UK variant of COVID-19​

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced "enomic testing has now linked six cases of the
highly infectious UK variant of COVID.

"These are the UK traveller and his partner, the hotel cleaner and her partner, and the man and his daughter from Lebanon who we told you about yesterday.

"So all six have a connection to the Grand Chancellor hotel.

 

[SydneySwan]

SMH reports:

Returned travellers forced to spend another 14 days at Brisbane quarantine hotel at centre of outbreak fears

Returned overseas travellers due to be released from quarantine at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Brisbane on Wednesday remain in their rooms and are expected to be held for another two weeks.

A cleaner who worked at the hotel contracted the highly infectious UK COVID-19 strain last week, and police are combing through four days of CCTV footage to pinpoint the moment of transmission.

Geoff Crooks returned from the United States with his wife and the couple has spent 14 days in the Hotel Grand Chancellor. He was due to be released at 12.01am on Wednesday, but got a knock on his door at 11pm on Tuesday from two police officers.

"We were handed two more forms, which were quarantine directions saying you may be held for another two weeks and your new release date is January 26," he said.

Comment has been sought from Queensland Health.

So they got 1 hours notice that they needed to quarantine for another 2 weeks? Unbelievable. This situation has been known about for around a week or more.

I presume that the Qld Govt will pick up the charges for the entire 28 days. I would be expecting additional compo as well especially if I was losing two more weeks work.

 

[Lynda2475]

I thought I heard a Vic government official state that the 1200 for the AO would be in addition to the regular Victorian cap

But Vic have never returned to their pre 2nd wave regualr cap, since resuming they have been taking less than 50% of the arrivals they were taking in July when they ceased taking any.

So the 1200 may be in addition to what they took in December, but its not in addition to what they should be taking. If they can increase their arrival capacity to accomodate the AO they need to answer why they cant take more Aussies by returning to regualr levels?

There was an article in paper yesterday about a family bumped from government sponosred LAX-BNE flight due to the newly reduced caps. If there was no AO, thats 1200 more peopel who could be home this week.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

NSW Presser.

1 local case. Child of existing case.