Australian Olympic Athletes Face A “Cruel” 28-Day Quarantine.
Australian Olympic Committee Chairman Matt Carroll said: “While other countries celebrate the return of their athletes, we have treated our athletes the most cruel and indifferent.”
On Wednesday, a group of Australian Olympic athletes faced a 28-day quarantine after returning from Tokyo. This move was labeled “cruel” and “indifferent” because they were worried about their mental health. According to strict coronavirus regulations, all foreign travelers, including the Australian team of nearly 500 members, must be quarantined in hotels or special inland camps for 14 days upon arrival in the country. However, the South Australian government stipulates that those who cannot fly directly from Tokyo to Adelaide must undergo home quarantine for another two weeks after they arrive in the state. Fifty-six athletes have returned to South Australia, and 16 have been quarantined in Sydney, which is currently in lockdown in an attempt to prevent the outbreak of the Delta variant.
“They are being rebuffed for gladly addressing their country with unique excellence at the Olympic Games.”
The whole Australian group, who won 17 gold decorations and 46 altogether, are completely immunized and were tried for COVID-19 practically day by day in Japan.
Carroll said this made them “very okay”, yet their application to South Australia to be absolved from the additional 14 days was dismissed.
AIS boss clinical official David Hughes called the choice “significantly imperfect”.
“To have people isolated for a particularly extended timeframe is as I would see it irrational and can’t be logically supported,” he said.
“It represents a huge danger to the physical and mental prosperity of the people concerned.”
The South Australian government was not promptly accessible for input.
Australia had evaded the most exceedingly terrible desolates of the pandemic through a methodology of shut boundaries, lockdowns, required travel isolate, and forceful testing and following.
But compared to the highly popular variants of Delta, these tools seem stiff. To date, the country has recorded approximately 37,000 Covid-19 cases and 940 related deaths in a population of 25 million.