Our current Delta outbreaks are tracable to a limo driver who was not—nor required to be—vaccinated or even masked while transferring travellers from their flight to hotel quarantine.
The main source of our success has been in massively cuts to the number of travellers we allow in, and that has it’s own obvious problems...
In Australia, hotel quarantine has caused one outbreak per 204 infected travellers. Purpose-built facilities are far better, but we only have one (Howard Springs, near Darwin) and the federal government has to date refused to build any more.
But no cases of infections slipping thru the testing, no?
As far as I know none of our leaks have been by releasing an infectious person after a negative test result.
It’s possible for PCR tests to return negative for a very early (low viral load) infection though; that’s why for high-risk travellers we do PCR tests on days −3, 1, 5, 11, and 14 of the quarantine period. For low-risk settings, ie contact tracing, you only need to isolate until you get a negative PCR test result.
In Australia, hotel quarantine has caused one outbreak per 204 infected travellers. Purpose-built facilities are far better, but we only have one (Howard Springs, near Darwin) and the federal government has to date refused to build any more.
Our current Delta outbreaks are tracable to a limo driver who was not—nor required to be—vaccinated or even masked while transferring travellers from their flight to hotel quarantine.
The main source of our success has been in massively cuts to the number of travellers we allow in, and that has it’s own obvious problems...
But no cases of infections slipping thru the testing, no?
As far as I know none of our leaks have been by releasing an infectious person after a negative test result.
It’s possible for PCR tests to return negative for a very early (low viral load) infection though; that’s why for high-risk travellers we do PCR tests on days −3, 1, 5, 11, and 14 of the quarantine period. For low-risk settings, ie contact tracing, you only need to isolate until you get a negative PCR test result.