Chitchat Australia closes borders to stop coronavirus

[bobby]

A travel ban will be placed on all non-residents and non-Australian citizens coming to Australia, effective from 9pm on Friday.

In making the announcement on Thursday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison explained the delay was to enable people currently preparing to arrive in Australia to make other arrangements, while not trapping travellers currently mid-flight.

“We believe it is essential to take (this) further step,” he said.

“I have been consulting with the New Zealand Prime Minister on (this) ban.”

New Zealand placed the same ban on non-residents entering its country on Thursday.

“These arrangements will enable over the next 24 hours or so for people to make other arrangements, if they were intending to come to Australia,” Morrison said.

Prime Minister bans non-residents from entering Australia

“For Australians, of course, they will be able to return and they will be subject, as they already are, to 14 days of isolation upon arrival back in Australia.”

Morrison repeated the call for Australians to return home from overseas countries as soon as possible, and was working with Qantas to facilitate this.

“Those in remote parts of the world, that can prove challenging but for those in other places, it is our intention to ensure we can maintain flights to enable them to come home as soon as possible.”

Morrison said most of the Australian COVID-19 cases had stemmed from overseas.

“We have about 80 per cent of the cases ... in Australia that are either the result of someone who has contracted the virus overseas or someone who has had direct contact with someone who has returned from overseas,” he said.

 

[A Singaporean]

Singapore is absolutely complacent with incompetent leadership.

 

[Leongsam]

Singapore is absolutely complacent with incompetent leadership.

Singapore is adopting a far more intelligent approach whereas the western governments are discarding any rational decision making in order to pander to the ignorant electorate.

I would like to take the opportunity to commend PM Lee and his team for doing what is best for the country and not bowing to ridiculous demands of the opposition who are using this pandemic to try to score political capital.

The scaremongering by the opposition is an abhorrent display of callousness and lack of empathy for the very people they claim to be representing. It causes stress and worry that is totally unwarranted and has lead to panic reactions which have benefitted nobody.

 

[mojito]

Singapore is adopting a far more intelligent approach whereas the western governments are discarding any rational decision making in order to pander to the ignorant electorate.

I would like to take the opportunity to commend PM Lee and his team for doing what is best for the country and not bowing to ridiculous demands of the opposition who are using this pandemic to try to score political capital.

The scaremongering by the opposition is an abhorrent display of callousness and lack of empathy for the very people they claim to be representing. It causes stress and worry that is totally unwarranted and has lead to panic reactions which have benefitted nobody.

Yes let's get the elections behind us so our govt can focus their attention on fighting the coronavirus.

 

[Leepotism]

Eventually all borders in the world will be closed except Singapore. Singapore belongs to everyone. All are welcome.

 

[Leongsam]

Eventually all borders in the world will be closed except Singapore. Singapore belongs to everyone. All are welcome.

I can guarantee you that in a short period of time the governments of the world will be begging people to visit the country because the economy has gone down the tubes and requires life support.

Singapore will then reign supreme with the knowledge that they were one of the few countries that did not self destruct.