The health unit and chief health officer and deputy chief health officers, analysed overnight what should be our approach when we have Omicron on these flights. Do we need to take a different approach to quarantine? Or can we apply our normal rules?…
So there’s been a lot of discussions overnight and I know that there’s been contact with other chief health officers and health officials interstate to see how states are dealing with this based on the national guidelines.
I’ve been advised this morning that the chief health officer and the deputies have viewed that we can apply the normal rules in relation to these flights and we don’t need to wait until we get the findings of whether it’s Omicron because, if it is, we still will apply these rules.
That means that other than those people who will be directly advised they are close contacts… the remainder of the passengers will be deemed to be casual contact. What that means for those people will be that they have to get tested, isolate until they get a negative result, and then just watch for symptoms over the next 14 days.
