Repatriation operation in South Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: initial planning and preparedness
| Autor: | Robert Hall, Paul McGowen, Joel Chan, Tuong-Vi Phan, Samantha Butenko, Jenny Hurley, Matthew McConnell, Lisa Upton, Razlyn Abdul Rahim, Emily Kirkpatrick, Sonali Meena |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Economic growth Isolation (health care) media_common.quotation_subject International Health Regulations Risk Assessment 03 medical and health sciences Dignity COVID-19 Testing 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Political science South Australia Pandemic medicine Humans Operational planning 030212 general & internal medicine Pandemics media_common Infection Control Travel SARS-CoV-2 Public health COVID-19 030208 emergency & critical care medicine General Medicine Preparedness Quarantine Public Health Delivery of Health Care Repatriation |
| Zdroj: | Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 45 |
| ISSN: | 2209-6051 |
| Popis: | With COVID-19 affecting millions of people around the globe, quarantine of international arrivals is a critical public health measure to prevent further disease transmission in local populations. This measure has also been applied in the repatriation of citizens, undertaken by several countries as an ethical obligation and legal responsibility. This article describes the process of planning and preparing for the repatriation operation in South Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interagency collaboration, development of a COVID-19 testing and quarantining protocol, implementing infection prevention and control, and building a specialised health care delivery model were essential aspects of the repatriation operational planning, with a focus on maintaining dignity and wellbeing of the passengers as well as on effective prevention of COVID-19 transmission. From April 2020 to mid-February 2021, more than 14,000 international arrivals travellers have been repatriated under the South Australian repatriation operations. This paper has implications to inform ongoing repatriation efforts in Australia and overseas in a pandemic situation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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