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I don't think there's any information on how long level 1 would last. I am just wondering what the strategy on borders would be if you are going for elimination
by koyote 6y ago
I don't think there's any information on how long level 1 would last. I am just wondering what the strategy on borders would be if you are going for elimination.
Surely once you have opened the borders it is only a matter of time for a new case to be imported (if you look at NSW right now, we've had a week of no local transmission but near-daily new cases for returned travellers, who are luckily in forced quarantine).
You could force-quarantine everyone for 14 days but I would not call that an 'open' border and it wouldn't do much to help the tourism industry.
- snowwrestler 6y agoOnce the number of cases falls below a certain level it becomes feasible to test every visitor, contact-trace every infection, and only quarantine the people who need it. This is a strategy that has worked well to fight other communicable diseases for which there is no vaccine.
- alkonaut 6y ago> near-daily new cases for returned travellers, who are luckily in forced quarantine How do you do that though? People arrive at the airport and take a taxi or train to a hotel? Thst's how a lot of the early spread started in Sweden: tourists returned from skiing in the italian alps in the last week of February, and infected taxi drivers.
- koyote 6y agoI am not quite sure how the transport works here (Australia) but it's most definitely not a random taxi. The hotels are paid for and organised by the government and are guarded to ensure no one goes in/leaves, so I assume the transport to the hotels is also tightly monitored and the safety of drivers is ensured. I believe China has similar procedures. Before the hotels we had self-quarantine and that actually caused an Uber driver to become infected when he drove a cruise ship passenger home.