We should be banning flights from India with immediate effect!

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49 people on India-Hong Kong flight test positive for Covid-19, new record for single flight
Hong Kong bans flights from India in response.
Jason Fan |

April 21, 2021, 11:43 AM

At least 49 passengers on a flight from New Delhi to Hong Kong have tested positive for Covid-19, according to The Straits Times.



In response, the Hong Kong health authorities have imposed a two-week ban on all flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines, citing these locations as "extremely high-risk places".
This ban was placed in effect from Apr. 20.


Positive cases represent more than a quarter of plane capacity

According to South China Morning Post, the passengers were on a flight operated by Indian Airline Vistara, and arrived in Hong Kong on Apr. 4.
SCMP originally reported that 47 passengers tested positive for Covid-19, although ST later reported that at least 49 passengers tested positive for the virus.
The airline was operating an Airbus A321neo, which has a capacity of 188 seats, although the Hong Kong health authorities did not reveal how many passengers it was carrying.




Even if the flight was at maximum capacity, this would mean more than a quarter of the passengers on the plane tested positive for Covid-19.
According to Forbes, this flight set a new record for the most number of positive Covid-19 cases found on a single flight.

25 travellers tested positive immediately after landing





Hotel transmission possible

Out of the 49 confirmed Covid-19 cases on the flight, only 25 travellers tested positive immediately after landing in Hong Kong, while at least 22 were only found to be positive after almost two weeks of quarantine, according to SCMP.
Hong Kong has a pre-travel testing requirement, so all of these passengers had to test negative for Covid-19 within 72 hours of their flight to Hong Kong.
Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist at the Federation of American Scientists, said that it was possible that not all of the transmission occurred during the flight, as some may have have occurred during the 72 hours window.




He also suggested that hotel transmission could be possible, as hotel room cross infections have been observed in Australia's hotel quarantine system.

 

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National Cabinet agrees to reduce flights from India due to spike in COVID-19 cases
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Scott Morrison says it was a difficult decision to reduce flights from India.
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National Cabinet has agreed to temporarily reduce the number of incoming flights from India by 30 per cent after a spike in the number of returned travellers testing positive to COVID-19.
Key points:

• The change will come into place in "the months ahead"
• The government is also going to limit how many people are allowed to travel to high-risk countries
• In the last 24 hours India recorded the highest global daily increase of new COVID cases

The move comes after the Australian Medical Association's NT Branch said the group of leaders should consider the move after an increase in cases at the Howard Springs quarantine facility.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the decrease would apply to both the government-organised repatriation flights and commercial flights into Sydney.
"We will also be limiting the departure exceptions for Australians travelling to high-risk countries," he said.
Mr Morrison said the change would come into effect "in the months ahead", but that the government was flagging the changes now.
National Cabinet also agreed that people coming from high-risk countries, which would include India, will have to return a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of their flight back to Australia.
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"We're saying in that last point of embarkation … you would need to have a PCR test 72 hours before that takes place," he said.
"What this will do is ensure that in those places, those seats would be taken up by other Australian residents and citizens seeking to return that won't be coming from higher-risk countries."
The Prime Minister said the government was working with overseas officials on how it would be implemented.
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He said these were "difficult decisions" but the increasing risk from some countries required the move.
India reported 314,835 new cases of the coronavirus over the previous 24 hours, the highest daily increase recorded anywhere.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner said there would also be changes to the schedule of repatriation flights bound for Howard Springs from India, as well as the requirements for people boarding them.
"All repatriation flights not yet booked but planned for the NT for May will now be deferred until June," he said.
"Anyone returning from India on these flights and all flights thereafter will be required to isolate for two weeks prior to departure."
He said his government had a humanitarian need to help the returning travellers, but the ongoing repatriation effort needed to be weighed up with the safety of Territorians.

There has been a recent spike in the number of COVID cases in quarantine in returned travellers from India.(
ABC News: Alan Dowler
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Mr Morrison said while the announcement today was specifically about India, it would not be the only country the rules will apply to.
"The Chief Medical Officer, working with others and DFAT, will be seeking to put a list of high-risk countries in place," he said.
The Howard Springs facility, on the outskirts of Darwin, is currently dealing with the highest number of positive cases since it began handling repatriation flights last year.
Earlier this week, NT health authorities announced two more positive COVID cases, bringing the total in the Howard Springs facility to 18 since last weekend.
The group of state and territory leaders also agreed to fast-track the vaccination for Australians over 50.

 

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