All Australian new arrivals now to be quarantined in hotels , because of fears self isolation is not working.
No **** Sherlock , should have been getting people in controlled isolation weeks ago , get the police and military involved if people don't treat it seriously.
Find it weird that the people we flew out of China then went to Christmas Island for 14 days ENFORCED isolation but since then we just trust (and hope) people to do the right thing.
Another example of getting the terminology wrong.
IT IS NOT SELF ISOLATION!!! IT IS QUARANTINE!!!
Some returning travellers may have to self-isolate for 28 days
We have just double-checked this point with the Western Australian government.
Under the new mandatory self-isolation rules decided by the national cabinet today, returning travellers to Australia have to undergo 14-day self-isolation in a hotel
in the city where their international flight lands.
If they live in one of the five states and territories in Australia that has introduced state-based border controls, and requires a 14-day self-isolation period for domestic travellers,
they will have to self isolate again for another 14-days upon arrival in their home state.
So, if a Tasmanian resident returns from overseas, they will have to self isolate for 14 days in the city where their international flight lands — probably Sydney or Melbourne — and then for another 14 days upon return to Tasmania.
That’s 28 days of not being allowed out.
At least, that is how the WA government understands the new rule.
Previously, the rules on this were more flexible. Mandatory self-isolation was largely conducted at home, and people were allowed to return to their home to begin their isolation. But all that slack has been gathered up.
This is what
Scott Morrison said on this point earlier today
If their home is in South Australia or in Perth or in Tasmania and they have arrived in Melbourne, they will be quarantining in Melbourne. If it’s in Sydney, it will be in Sydney, if it’s Brisbane, and so on.