Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly praised Australia’s progress in dealing with COVID-19, adding there were currently no hotspots around the country by any definition.
“I think I also want to talk today about how there are no hotspots today here in Australia, at least from the commonwealth perspective, and indeed by any way of looking at hotspots, there just aren’t any,” he said.
“We’re in a very good position here in Australia."
Professor Kelly said Australia was still recording cases in hotel quarantine, which would continue while the country allows overseas travellers to return.
“Potential links to diplomats, aircrew and other people who may have had contact with international travellers have been investigated and no source of the Avalon cluster has been identified at this point,” a spokeswoman said.
She said all exit screening tests on people who had been self-isolating on the northern beaches during that period came back negative.
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“Questions around reciprocal arrangements with foreign governments overseas should be directed to the Commonwealth government,” she added.
Federal Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly has previously expressed confidence that the northern beaches strain derived from a female traveller in hotel quarantine who arrived in Australia from the United States on December 1.
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Red 2.2.1
Yep in principal on the approach, not so much the spin and politics of it all , the team of 5m thing ( vomit inducing) , canonisation of certain individuals, smugness of nz in contrasting other countries without realising how much advantage we have to most other nations, releasing not so complementary reports on health sector performance very late and after the election, attempts to make this a left and right issue Apart from that on board
Drowsy M. Kram 2.2.1.1
Red, what makes you think that there s a (general?) lack of realisation of the advantages (
e.g. remote island, delayed risk of exposure, small well-educated population, competent leaders and dedicated public health workers focussed on protecting the health of citizens) that NZ has wrt this global pandemic?