Australia - Health authorities are recommending home quarantine for South Australian children who have visited Melbourne

[Sally Furniss]

Swine flu: home quarantine urged in SA

Health authorities are recommending home quarantine for South Australian children who have visited Melbourne because of a high prevalence of swine flu there.

A person visiting SA from Western Australia has also been diagnosed with swine flu, becoming the eighth case in South Australia.

They are to stay in isolation in SA for a week.

SA Health Minister John Hill says the Commonwealth chief medical officer has recommended a voluntary quarantining of children who have visited Melbourne.

"In addition to our recommendation that children returning from USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Panama remain at home for seven days we are also recommending that school children and children in childcare and kindergarten who return from Melbourne should stay at home in isolation for seven days," he told the SA Parliament

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/03/2588335.htm

 

[kezza01]

Re: Australia - Health authorities are recommending home quarantine for South Australian children who have visited Melbourne

This is the same situation for all states in Australia now - we have all been asked to home quarantine any students travelling from Melbourne. This was announced on the afternoon of one of our most watched football games - at least here in the east coast.

so that meant that we had thousands of families who had travelled from their home state (NSW or Queensland) to watch the match. they only found out as they arrived for the game itself that when they returned home they would be encouraged to go into home quarantine.

my question is, what happens to those passengers on the planes that they sit near when they fly home? as one the key staff ensuring my agency is ready to support these people i can foresee an incredible increase in requests.....and cases too......