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From next week, Queenslanders and Victorians will be allowed into Western Australia quarantine-free.
People from those states currently in quarantine will be able to leave when their respective states of origin transition to the new levels.
It’s definitely not how you would have wanted to spend your time in WA.
The World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 yesterday visited a hospital in Wuhan, which was the first to treat patients in the early days of the outbreak.
The hospital visit was the team’s first in the field after two weeks in quarantine, and a WHO spokeswoman said the group’s contacts in Wuhan would be limited to visits organised by their Chinese hosts due to health restrictions.
The team will go out but they will be bussed to wherever, so they won’t have any contact with the community. They will only have contact with various individuals that are being organised as part of the study.
Extremely important 1st site visit. We are in the hospital that treated some of the first known cases of COVID-19, meeting with the actual clinicians & staff who did this work, having open discussion about the details of their work. https://t.co/yDEPedtC11
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