What happens if you catch COVID whilst overseas?

[HappyFlyerFamily]

No, tests are no longer required to cross (most) state borders anyway.

OK that's a relief. Many interstate holidayers getting positive while on holidays and need to isolate and can't come home as planned. It would feel horrible not being allowed on the plane home by QF domestic because one didn't get a clearance certificate.

 

[Lynda2475]

Many interstate holidayers getting positive while on holidays and need to isolate and can't come home as planned

Have to ask now that there are no post domestic arrival tests legislated, why are all these holiday makers even getting tested interstate?

 

[MooTime]

So you can and allowed to get on a domestic flight with covid?

Just out of interest.

 

[Lynda2475]

So you can and allowed to get on a domestic flight with covid?

Just out of interest.

Not techncally, you sign a declaration that you dont have symptoms and havent been deemed a close contact. But obviously there are heaps of asymptomatic cases flying domestically everyday that could by defnition only know hey are positive if they decide to pre-emptively test, since they have zero symptoms. If you havent tested and are asymptomatic you arent lying on the declaration.

If feeling well (not if you have obvious symptoms) while on a domestic holiday, why tempt fate and test?

On each of the 3 domestic flights Ive done in the last 2 weeks, Ive observed people sneeze or sniffle or cough (all could be construed as symptoms) yet those people obviously ticked the "no symptoms" box on their declaration and flew anyway.

And unsurprisigly I can see alerts that positives have been in the QF J lounges (note: these are not even considered casual, no directive to test or iso just watch for symptoms) so unless staff, more proof that positives (likely unknown) are indeed flying.

 

[Must...Fly!]

So you can and allowed to get on a domestic flight with covid?

Just out of interest.

Well you can in theory but then you would be making false declarations and failing to follow the health directives of the states concerned

 

[Pom-DownUnder]

anyone know the Darwin attitude to international arrivals transiting onward via domestic?

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

anyone know the Darwin attitude to international arrivals transiting onward via domestic?

Seems to suggest PCR pre-flight, post-arrival RATs (first RAT within 2 hours) and a border form, and they appear to give RATs

So perhaps if your transit is less than 2 hours you might be OK to go as not yet required to test??? But if positive - doomed to miss transfer.

NT website: Interstate and international arrivals
Handy chart: https://coronavirus.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/1078280/nt-border-arrivals-v2.pdf

 

[Scr77]

We assume LAX on 19/12 is when we contracted COVID. When we went through the international security it was chaos. Everyone was wearing masks but no distancing. The security agency's weren't in their booths so there was a 1hr delay where there was no movement in the line and more and more planes landed creating an incredibly overcrowded space.

Now that some time has passed, do you still think this is correct? Do you need to remove mask as part of identification at customs etc?

 

[big_RED]

Now that some time has passed, do you still think this is correct? Do you need to remove mask as part of identification at customs etc?

We either got it on the flight over to LAX (seems a slim chance since everyone needed COVID negative tests to be allowed to board in SYD), at LAX, in the lounge at LAX, or on the connecting flight from LAX to our destination.

 

[stryker]

We either got it on the flight over to LAX (seems a slim chance since everyone needed COVID negative tests to be allowed to board in SYD), at LAX, in the lounge at LAX, or on the connecting flight from LAX to our destination.

A flight attendant. perhaps?

 

[AviatorPJ]

Wondering if any recent experience with Australian citizen testing Covid-19 positive overseas, and the process for return to Australia under new Australian digital passenger declaration (DPD) requirements, for:
(a) making and processing a request for exemption from pre-departure testing ( to return to Australia) based on,
(b) acceptance of medical certificate of recovery within the prior 30 days and considered to be non infectious in the previous 72 hours?
as indicated on Australian Dept of Health website

Inbound international travel

Australia's border continues to reopen. Find out what you need to do to be able to travel to Australia.

www.health.gov.au

This is my current situation in Thailand.
Appreciate any suggestions/experience shared?
Thanks PJ

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

Before having a PCR test in Milan, prior to returning to Australia, we had to nominate a "Covid" Hotel in case we tested positive. The Clinic gave us a list of Hotels to choose from. As we did our own tests before going to the clinic we were not concerned.
I asked the test operator how many positive tests
were recorded and he advised "almost none".

 

[AviatorPJ]

Thanks for that.
However, I'm due out of iso next weekend here in Thailand. Tested positive, hardly symptomatic and was triple vaccinated in Australia before coming over.
Now I'm looking to return to Australia - a little later than planned, admittedly and after iso. Wondering how to deal with the new requirements and getting an exemption from pre-departure testing I linked to before? I'll (hopefully) be medically cleared as recovered and non infectious.

 

[N860CR]

Thanks for that.
However, I'm due out of iso next weekend here in Thailand. Tested positive, hardly symptomatic and was triple vaccinated in Australia before coming over.
Now I'm looking to return to Australia - a little later than planned, admittedly and after iso. Wondering how to deal with the new requirements and getting an exemption from pre-departure testing I linked to before? I'll (hopefully) be medically cleared as recovered and non infectious.

From my reading, have a medical certificate saying you’ve served your seven days and are not showing any symptoms and you should be fine.

Amazing how you can be infected with a world destroying virus and be “hardly symptomatic”. At least you’re in Thailand, so you know there’s been nothing dodgy going on. Oh wait.

 

[AviatorPJ]

From my reading, have a medical certificate saying you’ve served your seven days and are not showing any symptoms and you should be fine.

Amazing how you can be infected with a world destroying virus and be “hardly symptomatic”. At least you’re in Thailand, so you know there’s been nothing dodgy going on. Oh wait.

A Covid-19 positive RT-PCR lab test from a nearby Bangkok Hospital confirmed my earlier self administered RAT double liner. I was prescribed a 5 day course of oral Favipirivair and am 4.5 days through the regimen in my monitored iso.

My ""hardly symptoms"" that are all now absent, were, on waking, and before my self administered RAT and subsequent PCR: slightly scratchy throat, two episodes of sneezing, occasional dry cough from top of the chest, start of a slightly runny nose and a normal range temp.

I'm hoping my immunizations, early diagnosis, treatment and isolation will set me up for a recovery in due course.

I'm just wondering if any other AFF's have gone through the mechanics of the pre-departure testing exemption request process and how it is to reported in the new DPD form?

 

[Must...Fly!]

I'm hoping my immunizations, early diagnosis, treatment and isolation will set me up for a recovery in due course.

I don't mean to belittle the experience, but from your description all I am asking myself is "recovery from what"

 

[N860CR]

I don't mean to belittle the experience, but from your description all I am asking myself is "recovery from what"

A virus so awful that you don’t even know you’ve got it without being tested

 

[AviatorPJ]

I'm just wondering if any other AFF's have gone through the mechanics of the pre-departure testing exemption request process and how it is to reported in the new DPD form?

 

[N860CR]

I was almost not going to post anything… but I’m all about transparency and honesty. And it gives plenty the chance to say “yesss!!! They’ve got it!!! Now they’ll learn!!!!”.

I packed about 10 RATs from Australia to bring to South Africa with the plan of doing one every 2 days. Did one this afternoon, poured a Klipdrift and hit the timer. After ten minutes, the T line very slightly appears…. Surely not. Wait 2 hours and do it again, same result. Spend 15 minutes going “do I have a cough? I don’t think I do”. Run to the pharmac_ and buy a thermometer, 20 tests later it’s still 36.9 degrees. Maybe I have a slightly sore throat? I had that before my PCR in Sydney though. I also spent 24 hours flying down here, that always leaves me feeling a little unwell.

I’ll go for a PCR tomorrow. If that’s positive, zero isolation requirements in South Africa for those who are asymptomatic. Already spoken to an online doctor who has said just send it through and I’ll get a recovery certificate. Saves the stress for the return home test!

I mean, maybe in the next few days I’ll get horribly sick and dragged off to a South African hospital (those who would like this, feel free to respond with haha!), however I suspect I’ll be just fine.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Best wishes for your recovery

Will be curious to know if you have a positive PCR.