Many of Australia’s quarantine facilities for returned overseas travellers are far from full as the Indian flight ban continues to leave thousands stranded.
Many of Australia’s quarantine facilities for overseas arrivals are far from full as the Indian flight ban continues to leave thousands stranded.show the Northern Territory’s Howard Springs quarantine facility, which prompted the ban last month after all but one of 48 infected residents had travelled from India, is only at roughly a third of its capacity.
“We are already seeing at Howard Springs the number of confirmed cases starting to come off. That is what we want to see over the next couple of weeks,” he said in Queensland on Tuesday.“This is a decision that has been taken both in the interests of keeping Australians safe now but also to put us in a stronger position to safely bring more Australians home.”
That centre, which has space for 850 return travellers and will expand to accommodate 2000 people by the end of the month, is housing just over 250 repatriated travellers. Another roughly 150 people were also completing quarantine at the other part of the facility.
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