Western Australia’s COVID outbreak was ‘preventable’: AMA President

Australian Medical Association President Dr Omar Khorshid has told Sky News Western Australia’s recent COVID-19 oubtreak and snap lockdown was “preventable” after a report found the quarantine hotel at the centre was unsuitable for use. The Perth and Peel regions in WA were sent into a three-day snap lockdown after a returning Australian who travelled to India for a wedding tested positive after his 14-day quarantine and after spending five days in the community. Dr Khorshid said it was a “very similar event” to the one which occurred in February in Perth as it related to an “airborne transmission” of the virus between rooms in the hotel. He said the hotel in question was found by the government’s own report, which was released in April, to be “not suitable for hotel quarantine” due to its ventilation problems. “It is frustratingly slow; that is the main criticism of the WA government here that they have not done everything they could have done to make hotel quarantine as safe as possible,” he said.

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