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Health authorities only provided advice on penalties for Aussies returning from India 03/05/2021|8min
Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly has stressed Australia’s health experts were asked by government for advice in relation to the risk of returning travellers from India – stating he does not make decisions for government.
From today, it will be illegal for Australian citizens to return from India – with those found not complying potentially facing up to five years imprisonment or a $66,000 fine.
Professor Kelly told Sky News Section 474 of the Biosecurity Act “requires the minister to seek advice in relation to the proportionality of potential decisions as well as making sure they are the least restrictive for the least amount of time necessary to deal with an issue of public health threat”.
India Covid crisis: Australian PM defends travel ban, says it s in best interests
PTI/Melbourne Filed on May 3, 2021 | Last updated on May 3, 2021 at 11.37 am
FILE PHOTO: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, November 17, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
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Morrison said that he wants to get those repatriation flights running safely again.
Australia s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday defended his government s decision to ban and impose a jail term and a penalty for Australians trying to return from India, saying it is in the country s best interests and to prevent a third wave of infections.
Government s objective must remain keeping Aussies in Australia safe 03/05/2021|4min
Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly says his “heart definitely goes out” to the 9000 Australians stranded in India but the objective “has to remain to keep Australians in Australia safe.”
He told Sky News the state and territories agreed in the early days of the pandemic that two per cent of infections in hotel quarantine “would be a benchmark of concern that we should take action once we got to that level.”
Professor Kelly pointed out now more than 15 per cent of occupants in the Howard Springs quarantine facility were infected with COVID, more than 70 per cent of which were returned travellers from India.
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