Tasmania introduces arrival cards (not a joke)

[Renato1]

If you smile and coo at the Customs dog we might (;

Really cute doggies checked us out.

They were only asking people who'd been overseas in the last two weeks to fill out the forms at Launceston.
Renato

 

[BCons]

Just back Wed morng from Dubai via Syd to Hobart.

compare and contrast :

2 extra questions on Syd arrival self-check booths (are you aware returnees will be reqd to self-isolate 14 Days) and another pretty innocuous q.
No noticeabe pax temperature monitoring, and straight thru quarantine check with No Questions Asked..

Hobart arrvl - met with 3 Tas Qtine officers, asking all arrivals from our flt ‘’have you recently returned from OS’. If so, handed a Ziplock bag with an arrival form and pen. Complete the form at a table that was disinfected each time somebody sat to complete, put form and pen into the bag, seal it yrself and then put it into another bag held by Qtine officer. Encouraged to use hand sanitiser and then allowed out the door. Impressive and reassuring.

 

[Stealthflyer]

Just back Wed morng from Dubai via Syd to Hobart.

compare and contrast :

2 extra questions on Syd arrival self-check booths (are you aware returnees will be reqd to self-isolate 14 Days) and another pretty innocuous q.
No noticeabe pax temperature monitoring, and straight thru quarantine check with No Questions Asked..

Hobart arrvl - met with 3 Tas Qtine officers, asking all arrivals from our flt ‘’have you recently returned from OS’. If so, handed a Ziplock bag with an arrival form and pen. Complete the form at a table that was disinfected each time somebody sat to complete, put form and pen into the bag, seal it yrself and then put it into another bag held by Qtine officer. Encouraged to use hand sanitiser and then allowed out the door. Impressive and reassuring.

That is very reassuring. Thanks for sharing.

 

[BCons]

Yep the state is very vulnerable in many ways. Hospital beds aside, I worry about the impact on education if the schools close. Tasmania is already struggling education-wise.

The ABC just released some interesting visuals of each state’s “curves”:

Charting the COVID-19 spread: Australia passes 10,000 coronavirus deaths

Australia has officially recorded more than 10,000 COVID deaths in total, with 4,000 of those recorded in Victoria. Here's what the latest data shows.

www.abc.net.au

heard from health professional this morng that all 7 Tas cases (so far) were returnees/oseas visitors, so its not that Tas is ‘vulnerable’, just that we hv xlent chance of minimising the spread by requiring Self-isolation.

 

[Stealthflyer]

heard from health professional this morng that all 7 Tas cases (so far) were returnees/oseas visitors, so its not that Tas is ‘vulnerable’, just that we hv xlent chance of minimising the spread by requiring Self-isolation.

Some were in contact with people who recently returned but it was flagged early and they were isolated before they showed signs of the illness. Isolation is the real weapon here.

 

[Melburnian1]

It would be pretty bad to get deported from Tasmania...

195 years ago, some Maria Island inhabitants may not have wished for 'deportation' but they sure as heck longed for freedom.

 

[Stealthflyer]

Announced this morning : Tasmania has essentially closed its borders.

All 'non-essential' travellers to Tasmania will have to quarantine for 14 days

 

[Steady]

Regarding all entrants to Tas self isolating, has anyone seen information they can post a link to, outlining any rules/conditions on leaving prior to the 14 days being up?

 

[Virgin Bart]

Regarding all entrants to Tas self isolating, has anyone seen information they can post a link to, outlining any rules/conditions on leaving prior to the 14 days being up?

Also, is there an end date for this? Of course it will be as long as it takes, but an "at least until" date?

 

[Stealthflyer]

Regarding all entrants to Tas self isolating, has anyone seen information they can post a link to, outlining any rules/conditions on leaving prior to the 14 days being up?

It was only announced at 9.15 this morning. They might still be ironing out the details.

 

[Steady]

It was only announced at 9.15 this morning. They might still be ironing out the details.

True, I guess I was thinking that all international arrivals have had to isolate now for a while so it must have come up where people needed to leave the country before the 14 days were up - I also have assumed the isolation rules would be the same but I guess I shouldn't with everything changing daily

 

[BCons]

Here's a link from the Tas Health flyer given out to me at airport on return yday :

..for more information about self-isolation and the latest on the coronavirus situation visit healthtas.gov.au/coronavirus

 

[CaptJCool]

Nation Leading Border Restrictions to Protect Tasmanians

www.premier.tas.gov.au

 

[Steady]

Here's a link from the Tas Health flyer given out to me at airport on return yday :

..for more information about self-isolation and the latest on the coronavirus situation visit healthtas.gov.au/coronavirus

You need to add a full stop after health.

There is no info on leaving that I can see - it refers to a hotline that I called and that just refers back to the website

 

[drron]

I hope Tas Health has thought this through.I have worked in the 3 Northern Hospitals and even at the best of times they rely on locum medical registrars to have their full complement.Guess you can't accept a locum job and expect to arrive the day before the job starts.

 

[Steady]

I hope Tas Health has thought this through.I have worked in the 3 Northern Hospitals and even at the best of times they rely on locum medical registrars to have their full complement.Guess you can't accept a locum job and expect to arrive the day before the job starts.

From midnight on Friday, all "non-essential" travellers into the state will have to go into 14 days' quarantine, he said.
Mr Gutwein said "essential" travellers included people required to keep the state's health system and trade operational.
All others, including returning Tasmanians, will be required to go into quarantine.

 

[RooFlyer]

i noted up-thread that I wasn't offered an 'Arrival Card' when i returned. I found on on-line but there was no info about where to send it. After a coupe of calls, I got an e-mail address.

The 3 new cases in Tas

ALL THREE new cases of coronavirus were contracted overseas, with the victims showing symptoms before arriving in the country.

Director of Public Health Dr Mark Veitch addressed the public, stating the victims were a woman, and two men in their 40s.

The woman travelled in the United Kingdom, and the men travelled through several European countries before returning to Australia.

 

[Stealthflyer]

The 3 new cases in Tas

Hang on, they showed symptoms before arriving?! That makes me cross.
I hope they had the sense to isolate once in Tasmania. Or is that asking too much?

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I hope Tas Health has thought this through.I have worked in the 3 Northern Hospitals and even at the best of times they rely on locum medical registrars to have their full complement.Guess you can't accept a locum job and expect to arrive the day before the job starts.

The restrictions are for non-essential travel. I’m assuming that emergency medical care would be an exemption. Hopefully it won’t come to that. I guess we’ll find out in the next couple of weeks.

 

[BCons]

Those 3 new cases arrived back in a Tas 15th, so (as the line goes..) check yrself before you wreck yrself’...

anyone know if there is an equivalent database to NZ, where all known cases are reported with origin, flight dets and arrival date ??