TrendsWide
Contact US
  • Home
  • Trending
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA
  • Reviews
No Result
View All Result
TrendsWide
  • Home
  • Trending
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA
  • Reviews
No Result
View All Result
TrendsWide
No Result
View All Result
Home Australia

Perth quarantine hotel at the centre of new Covid outbreak identified as ‘high risk’ TWO WEEKS ago

by souhaib
April 23, 2021
in Australia
0
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
ADVERTISEMENT


A bombshell report has revealed a Perth quarantine hotel at the centre of the city’s Covid outbreak was identified as being ‘high risk’ more than two weeks ago. 

A Western Australia Health Department review into its hotel quarantine facilities and their ventilation on April 8 found the Mercure Hotel to be the most at risk of transmission, along with the Four Points and the Novotel Langley.

That led Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson to tell Premier Mark McGowan on April 14 the Mercure should not be used for returned travellers. 

Less than a week later the hotel would be responsible for the state’s latest outbreak – which has now spread to Victoria and sparked a snap three-day lockdown over the Anzac Day weekend.

The results of the review were not published until after the latest infections, and Mr McGowan has been accused of ‘burying’ the report and presiding over a quarantine system full of ‘fatal flaws’. 

A Western Australia Health Department review into its hotel quarantine facilities and their ventilation on April 8th found the Mercure Hotel to be the most at risk of transmission

Perth quarantine hotel at the centre of new Covid outbreak identified as 'high risk' TWO WEEKS ago

Millions of Western Australians have been plunged into a three-day lockdown after one local case of coronavirus

Documents from Western Australia Health Department anaylsed the viability of Perth's 10 hotel quarantine facilities

Documents from Western Australia Health Department anaylsed the viability of Perth’s 10 hotel quarantine facilities

The report shows three hotels given a 'high-risk' designation, with the Mercure receiving the worst score and recommendation to be shut down as a hotel quarantine facility

The report shows three hotels given a ‘high-risk’ designation, with the Mercure receiving the worst score and recommendation to be shut down as a hotel quarantine facility 

The April 8 report provides a premonition for what was to come and a stark warning for the rest of the country to tighten its hotel quarantine systems.

You might also like

Fears the Bondi Covid cluster has spread 60km away as a childcare centre is forced to close

China accused using UNESCO puppet against Australia over Great Barrier Reef world heritage listing

Queensland slams its borders shut to Sydney Covid hotspots

The Hotel Quarantine Facility Ventilation Factors Summary reviewed the ten hotels being used to hold returning travellers, including the Mercure, Holiday Inn, Hyatt and Westin.

The summary reviewed 11 different factors, including corridor access to fresh air, ventilation rates, leakage and relative risk of exposure.

Three venues registered ‘high-risk’ designations – the Mercure, Four Points and Novotel Langley Hotels – with the Mercure recording the worst scores across the board.

Engineer notes on the Mercure's problems said fixing its faults would be 'difficult' and 'prohibitively costly to achieve'

Engineer notes on the Mercure’s problems said fixing its faults would be ‘difficult’ and ‘prohibitively costly to achieve’

A member of the public has sample taken at a busy drive through covid testing site in Inglewood, Perth

A member of the public has sample taken at a busy drive through covid testing site in Inglewood, Perth

Engineer notes on the Mercure’s problems said fixing its faults would be ‘difficult’ and ‘prohibitively costly to achieve’, analysis that would have played a part in Dr Robertson’s decision to close the facility as a quarantine hotel.

Despite the review and advice from the state’s health experts, the hotel remained a functioning centre and as such has led to Perth being in a three-day lockdown over the Anzac Day weekend. 

The review summary and Dr Robertson’s comments weren’t published until after Friday’s confirmed breakout, The West reported.

The West Australian government are also yet to release their initial and final reviews into hotel quarantine ventilation that were conducted in March.

Premier McGowan said Thursday the Mercure would cease holding overseas travellers, instead providing housing for ‘seasonal workers’ from ‘low-risk countries’. 

From midnight residents in the Perth and Peel region will be locked down until Tuesday morning, meaning Anzac Day dawn services are cancelled

From midnight residents in the Perth and Peel region will be locked down until Tuesday morning, meaning Anzac Day dawn services are cancelled

Libby Mettam, the Opposition Health Spokeswoman, says Premier McGowan had been ‘caught out burying a damning report’, claiming ‘gaping holes’ are prevalent in the state’s praised quarantine system.   

‘It’s concerning that the McGowan Government was only forthcoming with the report following the revelation of transmission between travellers in the Mercure Hotel,’ she said Friday.

‘There is simply no way of spinning this, the Government have been sitting on a report since the beginning of April which states the Mercure was a risk from a ventilation perspective stating ‘leakage was likely between rooms’.

‘The Four Points Sheraton and Novotel Langley have also been highlighted and the McGowan Government must act and address these fatal flaws in their failed management of our hotel quarantine system.’ 

Millions of residents in the Perth and Peel regions will be locked down from midnight on Friday until Tuesday morning after two locally transmitted cases of coronavirus were recorded. 

Masks must be worn from 6pm onwards, but residents will still be able to escape the zones until midnight, and a large-scale rugby union event will still take place.

Anzac Day services have been cancelled. 

The lockdown was introduced after a 54-year-old man who was released from quarantine at the infamous Mercure Hotel and spent four days in the city tested positive in Melbourne on Friday morning.

The man’s friend who he stayed with also tested positive in Perth.

The man had caught the virus while in hotel quarantine from returned travellers, who had arrived from India and were staying in a nearby room on the same floor.   

ANZAC WEEKEND – WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU: 

Reasons to leave your house:

  • Work if you can’t work from home or remotely
  • Shopping essentials
  • Health services
  • Exercise – with maximum four people for one hour per day and masks must be worn unless it is rigorous exercise    

 Places that will close:

  • Pubs, bars and clubs
  • Places of worship
  • Gyms and indoor sporting facilities 
  • Playgrounds and outdoor sporting facilities 
  • Entertainment venues  

 All Anzac Day services have been cancelled

Weddings will be allowed to continue with a 100-person maximum but masks must be worn

No visitors will be allowed at hospitals

People can only enter Perth and Peel regions for medical care 

Masks are mandatory at all times when leaving the house from 6pm Friday 



Source link

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • Telegram
  • Email
Tags: dailymail australia
Share30Tweet19
Previous Post

Scientists reveal how to beat your mates at FIFA 

Next Post

MLB: Cincinnati Reds fan trips and spills nachos whilst attempting home run catch

souhaib

Recommended For You

Fears the Bondi Covid cluster has spread 60km away as a childcare centre is forced to close

by souhaib
June 23, 2021
0

Fears the Bondi Covid cluster has spread 60km away as a childcare centre in Sydney's south-west is forced to close after a positive case spent a day there Little...

Read more

China accused using UNESCO puppet against Australia over Great Barrier Reef world heritage listing

by souhaib
June 23, 2021
0

2019: Australian intelligence services conclude that China was responsible for a cyber-attack on Australia's parliament and three largest political parties in the run-up to a May election.April 2020:...

Read more

Queensland slams its borders shut to Sydney Covid hotspots

by souhaib
June 23, 2021
0

Queensland slams its borders shut to Sydney hotspots as New South Wales battles a growing Covid clusterQueensland slams borders shut to anyone from Sydney's hotspot suburbs Anyone entering from...

Read more

UEFA denies Munich mayor’s Euro 2020 rainbow stadium gesture to protest against a Hungarian law

by souhaib
June 22, 2021
0

UEFA has refused a request from Munich's mayor for a stadium to be lit in rainbow colours for Germany's Euro 2020 match against Hungary on Wednesday in protest...

Read more

England march on in Euro 2020, but it’s group stage agony for Scotland

by souhaib
June 22, 2021
0

Who could England face in the Round of 16? England have won Group D That means they will face the runners up of Group F - the so-called 'Group of...

Read more
Next Post

MLB: Cincinnati Reds fan trips and spills nachos whilst attempting home run catch

No Result
View All Result

Recent Posts

  • NBA: The Blazers continue their reconstruction with Jerami Grant
  • The IMF predicts a slowdown in the US economy, but believes it can avoid recession | Economy
  • After the Supreme Court ruling on abortion, are there more rulings on historical precedent to come? | Video
  • The incredible transformation of Lucía Méndez as a “drag queen”
  • Mexican peso closes the week with advance after Banxico rate hike

Browse by Category

  • Australia
  • Automotive
  • Business
  • Celebrity
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Deals
  • Economie
  • Education
  • Euro
  • Forex
  • Gaming
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Sports
  • Switzerland
  • Trending
  • U.S.
  • Uncategorized

Categories

  • Australia
  • Automotive
  • Business
  • Celebrity
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Deals
  • Economie
  • Education
  • Euro
  • Forex
  • Gaming
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Sports
  • Switzerland
  • Trending
  • U.S.
  • Uncategorized

Pages

  • Contact US
  • Newsletter
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions

© 2021 - TrendsWide

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Contact US
  • Privacy Policy
  • Trending
  • U.S.
  • Economie
  • Deals
  • Reviews
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA

© 2021 - TrendsWide