As Melbourne residents begin their six-week lockdown, the state government is scrambling to repair its bungled hotel quarantine system while juggling hundreds of active COVID-19 cases.
and international travellers returning from overseas have been diverted to other cities.
“That reset can be done because we’ve got that pause, we’ve got that gap of a couple of weeks with no flights coming back to Melbourne,” he told ABC’s“I’ve written to the Prime Minister and asked him – or at least give him some warning – that that may be the position that we get to.”Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been in contact with the Prime Minister regarding the state’s hotel quarantine reset.
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