The Greens say quarantine facilities need to be established out of cities and that facilities must be publicly funded and run.
\n\u201cOur hotel quarantine system needs to be watertight. The UK, South Africa, Brazil variants are becoming the dominant variants in other parts of the world and we must keep these from getting out into our community\u201d, Greens spokesperson on Health Senator Rachel Siewert said
\n\u201cGovernments need to publicly fund and run our hotel quarantine system and establish facilities outside of the city centres in regional areas such as Avalon, Melbourne Airport or Toowoomba which have already been floated.
\n\u201cSome medi-hotels would continue to operate to support Australians arriving from high risk countries or those needing medical care.
\n\u201cIt is critical that the issue of aerosol spread of Covid-19 is addressed in all quarantine facilities. We must ensure all facilities are well-ventilated, with adequate airflow changes assessed by engineers as recommended by the experts, and that all quarantine workers have full PPE.
\n\u201cWe need a common sense approach to give people fresh air and reduce aerosol transmission of Covid-19.
\n\u201cThe Federal Government needs to step up. Quarantine is a Federal responsibility and needs to be funded as such.
\n\u201cThe bickering that has been occurring between the State and Feds on quarantine arrangements is not serving the community well.
\n\u201cWe need a public health response.
\n\u201cPeople have a right to come home and we need to keep our community COVID free, the quarantine system as it stands can\u2019t assure that.\u201d
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