The NSW government says its hotel quarantine system is at capacity and it would welcome the federal government opening a purpose-built facility in the state.
the state “would welcome a quarantine facility owned and operated by the Commonwealth as a way of increasing quarantine capacity”.“To put things into perspective, at least 10 such facilities as that being built in Melbourne would be required to match what NSW is already doing.”“There is no capacity for the NSW government to oversee more than this number,” the spokesman said.
In a direct message to the federal government she said: “if you set the criteria, you can design it, you can build it, you can operate it, you can own it, the lot”. “This thing is not just going to be solved by QR codes and lockdowns, we need the federal government to do their job.” Labor health spokesman Mark Butler said on Saturday that “we need a network of safe national quarantine facilities built for that purpose, not built for tourism, like hotels are, built for the purpose of medical quarantine. It’s the Prime Minister’s job.”
The Commonwealth’s preferred site is Avalon while the Victorian government’s is adjacent to a federal pet quarantine facility in Mickleham in Melbourne’s north.
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