Commonwealth must now invest in and run new quarantine facilities: AMA President

The Morrison government must now invest in and run quarantine facilities in all states and territories, but the WA Premier Mark McGowan’s calls to use current Commonwealth facilities isn’t “very realistic”, says to AMA President Dr Omar Khorshid. Dr Khorshid told Sky News there is definitely more which can be done to “fix hotel quarantine,” after calls from the Western Australian government for the Commonwealth government to use ADF bases. “We’re going to be needing quarantine for many months and potentially years into the future who knows where the next pandemic is coming,” he said. “It does make sense to now invest in Commonwealth run and funded quarantine facilities in each state and territory so that we’re not relying on these hotels that were really never built for this purpose for too much longer”. Dr Khorshid said Premier McGowan’s suggestion for current Commonwealth facilities to be used for quarantine wasn’t realistic due to “major downsides” of all potential sites currently available. “We need to create new ones.”

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