Opposition leader suggests federal government should have followed chief medical officer’s advice not to require pre-flight Covid test
“That said, I’d expect the measures would be eased as soon as possible. Worryingly it does look like Covid will race throughout China which is extremely concerning for so many Australians worried about friends and family,” Hill said. “It’s important that this is in no way seen as an anti-China measure.”China’s foreign ministry hit back at the requirement for a negative test before travel.
“China will, in light of the Chinese people’s inclination for outbound travel, resume outbound tourism to countries where conditions allow.” The Group of Eight universities deputy chief executive, Matthew Brown, said: “Given increasing international concern regarding managing Covid-19 variants, the government’s precautionary and temporary arrangements are reasonable.”
The government took Kelly’s advice “very seriously” but conceded “in making the point that we need to get our surveillance efforts up, [he] was not proposing this exact course of action”, Chalmers said on Tuesday.
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