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Australian Health Protection Principal Committee statement on Australia’s National Hotel Quarantine Principles
Hotel quarantining was mandated by National Cabinet on 27 March 2020. Australia’s utilisation of hotel quarantine arrangements has proven to be highly successful – approximately 2,200 cases out of 164,714 arrivals have been diagnosed[1] and managed with very few documented transmissions into the community.
Quarantine arrangements have limited the spread of COVID-19 to the Australian community when compared to many nations around the world. However, as transmission of infection can lead to serious outcomes including outbreaks, governments must continue to manage risk to prevent transmission in hotel quarantine.
Throughout Australia’s response to COVID-19, the following reviews relevant to hotel quarantine were undertaken:
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From early this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and governments all over the world were grappling with how to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and avoid overburdening health systems and workers in such a connected world.
Commonly used measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 throughout 2020 have included social distancing, lockdowns and restrictions on the movement of people in the community plus, in the case of people entering a country from overseas, a period of quarantine.
These measures have been, and continue to be, used across Australia. Of significance to the work of the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry was the 14-day period of mandatory quarantine that was announced on 27 March 2020 and implemented for all international arrivals into Victoria from 29 March 2020.
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