WA will welcome up to 150 arrivals on a repatriation flight from India today, but experts say more needs to be done to ensure there is no spread of COVID-19 if a passenger tests positive.
WA is set to welcome up to 150 arrivals on a repatriation flight from India today, but experts say more needs to be done to ensure there is no spread of COVID-19 if a passenger tests positive.They say hotel corridors are a particular riskIt comes after genome sequencing confirmedin the room next door.
But Deakin University chair of epidemiology Catherine Bennett said people should be tested after their quarantine period. Dr Robertson said guests who had been on the same floor of the Pan Pacific as the most recent case were asked to get tested after quarantine on days 17 and 21 as a precaution.
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