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    Australia - Coronavirus Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on August 18, 2020, 11:26 am

    'On Monday we reported that elected officials in Australia had apologised after an inquiry found “serious mistakes” were made when more than 2,500 passengers were allowed to disembark from a cruise ship in Sydney in March.

    This was when cruise ships were a significant source of infections globally.

    Passengers on the Ruby Princess were not tested, despite suspected cases, and until June it was the source of Australia’s largest outbreak, linked to 900 infections and 28 deaths.

    A parliamentary committee has now heard that federal officials failed to speak to the doctor on board the ship.

    The country's secretary for agriculture, water and the environment, Andrew Metcalfe, admitted to the Senate inquiry that protocols had not been followed on the vessel.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-53817280?

    For Australia, read the UK. Passengers from cruise ship.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-uk-latest-wuhan-evacuation-quarantine-wirral-york-outbreak-deaths-a9312401.html
    1st February 2020
    (Read the comments!)

    'The evacuees (from Wuhan) had landed at Brize Norton RAF base in Oxfordshire four hours after the first cases of coronavirus in the UK were confirmed.

    Public Health England said two members of the same family had fallen ill at the Staycity apartment-hotel in York on Wednesday. They are being treated at the specialist Airborne High Consequences Infectious Disease Centre (HCID), part of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Health officials are urgently trying to trace anyone who came into contact with the two patients.'

    Spanish football fans were allowed in to Anfield. There was also a massive crowd at Cheltenham for the Gold Cup. There were no controls until the March 23rd lockdown.

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