Community spread of COVID is due to a ‘failure of hotel quarantine’

Fairfield Council Mayor Frank Carbone says the COVID spread in the community is due to a “failure of hotel quarantine” after his local government area was listed among three which could see increased restrictions. On Wednesday Premier Gladys Berejiklan singled out Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool in the city’s south-west as areas of particular concern as cases continue to emerge due to non-compliance. Mr Carbone told Sky News while there should be “better messaging” in the multicultural communities, no one should not be “pointing fingers” and blaming the spread on people’s backgrounds. “To be really clear, this is really a failure of hotel quarantine,” he said. “I just think we’ve got to work out a way to stop the virus coming in from hotel quarantine, it’s a controlled area, that’s where everyone’s frustrated. “Fairfield’s a perfect example, an area that never had the virus, but the virus spreads. “You need to contain it from its entry point, they need to put as much resources as possible to stop the virus coming in to play from the beginning.”

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