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Coronavirus infections in hotel quarantine workers makes it ‘wrong time’ to increase international arrivals, epidemiologist warns – ABC News
Hotel quarantine workers should be at the front of the queue for vaccinations, a Melbourne epidemiologist says, and Australia should not be letting more people…
A leading epidemiologist says now is not the right time to allow more overseas travellers into Australia without having vaccinated all workers in hotel quarantine.
Key points:
- The virus is becoming more infectious, epidemiologist Nancy Baxter says
- She says it is concerning hotel workers caught COVID-19 despite wearing PPE
- It is essential hotel quarantine workers are among the very first to be vaccinated, she says
Nancy Baxter, who is the head of the School of Population at the University of Melbourne,…
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