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Opening Australian borders: NSW to run home quarantine pilot program

NRI Affairs News Desk by NRI Affairs News Desk
September 17, 2021
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Moving forward with the plans to open Australian international borders, the NSW and Federal Australian governments will launch a home quarantine pilot in Greater Sydney next month.

NSW Health and NSW Police will operate and monitor the program, which will trial a seven day home quarantine program for around 175 people.

The government says participants in the pilot will have had both doses of a TGA-accredited COVID-19 vaccine.

Won’t it be more expensive to have people scattered all across Sydney for home quarantine? The travel by NSW Health, to and from the houses, sending supplies etc #covid19nsw

— Shannon 💜 (@WickedDreamer) September 17, 2021

“The participants will be selected by NSW Health, based on a risk assessment framework, and may include some NSW residents, some non-Australian residents and some Qantas aircrew. The isolation period will be reduced from 14 to seven days,” said the government in a statement on Friday.

Read: Digital Passenger Declaration (DPD) ‘next step in preparation for reopening Australia’

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the pilot would help secure Australia’s safe reopening plan.

“This is the next step in our plan to safely reopen and to stay safely open,” the Prime Minister said.

“NSW has carried the lion’s share of quarantining returning Australians and will be leading the way with this trial that could set the standard for the next phases of the way we live with COVID-19.

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“This could mean more families and friends being able to reunite more quickly, more business being able to be done here, and more workers for key industries being able to fill critical jobs.”

NSW will use a mobile phone app based on that already in use in South Australia. The app uses geolocation and face recognition technology to monitor isolation compliance and provide people with a testing schedule and symptom checker.

“Privacy will be protected through the same mechanisms as the current Service NSW check-in regulations,” claims the government.

Major changes coming for NSW’s home and hotel quarantine rules, latest COVID-19 case numbers September 17, Bulldogs stadium in Belmore becomes Sydney’s first drive-through vaccine hub opens https://t.co/WvVwrNAAnQ

— Galla Go (@galla_go) September 17, 2021

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the home quarantine program is critical to bringing more Australians home while keeping the community safe.

“NSW has quarantined over 245,000 travellers throughout this pandemic, by far the most of any jurisdiction in the country, and this pilot will lay the foundations for us to reunite even more families and friends who are fully vaccinated,” Ms Berejiklian said.

“Hotel quarantine has been an important line of defence throughout this pandemic, but as we move towards our vaccination targets, we have to look at new ways of doing things.”

“The safety of the community remains our number one priority, and the rules around this home quarantine pilot will be strictly enforced.”

Police officers will conduct random in-person checks, and the existing penalties for individuals who breach conditions of their isolation still apply, according to the officials

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