Aussie citizens bussed to hotel quarantine after arriving in Adelaide on commercial Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur
More Aussie citizens have touched down in Adelaide on a commercial flight from Malaysia. The passengers are headed directly into mandatory quarantine at a city hotel.
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More than 100 passengers have touched down in Adelaide from Kuala Lumpur and will be transported into mandatory two-week hotel quarantine.
The Malaysia Airlines flight, the company’s first commercial flight since the COVID-19 crisis began, arrived in Adelaide around 6.30am on Saturday morning carrying 120 passengers.
The arrivals will undertake 14 days of quarantine at the Pullman Hotel in the city.
An SA Health spokesman said the travellers would be tested for COVID-19 at the airport, and again before the 14 day hotel quarantine period ended.
Malaysian Airlines has indicated it is planning to reinstate a weekly service from Kuala Lumpur to Adelaide in early August, an Adelaide Airport spokesman said.
SA Health on Friday revealed the state had recorded a fourth day of zero daily cases as three “active” patients remained in quarantine at the Pullman Hotel in Hindmarsh Square.
About 280 citizens landed in Adelaide last weekend on a repatriation flight from India, which brought the three new active cases, breaking a 31 day streak of infection-free days in SA.
Authorities on Friday revealed two cases of security breaches in SA quarantine in a week Victorian systems came under fire after new infections were linked to blunders.
SA Health stood down a hotel quarantine security guard on Thursday after a police officer discovered he was not wearing a PPE mask while patrolling a hotel floor.
He was “immediately replaced” but he was not required to quarantine for a fortnight because he had had no interaction with those in quarantine.
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said he believed while the risks of an outbreak couldn’t be eliminated he believed SA’s process was “quite sound”
He said authorities had “given an assurance that we would do everything we could to protect the community … from an inadvertent spread of COVID-19.”
Premier Steven Marshall said SA was “getting close” to being able to ease border restrictions with NSW and the ACT but added “we do need some time to get this right”.
