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The Prime Minister of the Australian State of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, ad new restrictions for airline crews, after the police fined 13 thousand dollars -almost 7 million 200 thousand pesos- to the staff of a Latam flight found in the country.
Each of the 13 members of the team, who came from South America, was fined a thousand dollars for leaving their hotel in the suburb of Mascot, violating the preventive quarantine order current, as published by the portal Age.
The police had to go to the compound due to complaints that one of the crew members had left, discovering later that the rest had not fully complied with the isolation, as they went to different locations in the sector.
Therefore, the local government announced that since Tuesday All crews must be confined in one of the two hotels that are monitored by the police and the health authority from New South Wales, but only until you board your next flight, which is the norm in the area, rather than 14 days as is often the case in other countries.
However, this implies an important change compared to the current protocol, which allows airlines to choose the precinct of their preference among 25 or 26 different places, and none of them is subject to infection control or any type of supervision .
“THERE WILL BE NO OPPORTUNITY TO DISOBEY”
Regarding this modification, the Prime Minister clarified that the instructions themselves are not the difficulty in this case, but that “it has been the people who disobey them”, and assured that from next Tuesday “there will be no opportunity to disobey”.
On the other hand, regarding the incident with the Latam staff, Berejiklian said that “fortunately it does not seem that this has caused anything”, such as an outbreak in the state.
On the other hand, the Minister of Health, Brad HazzardSaid to have held several meetings with airlines recently in relation to increasing restrictions after the arrival of personnel, while maintaining their rights; but one of the main challenges has been handling crews from abroad, since the Executive does not have jurisdiction over them.
“It is difficult, because we do not want them to end up saying that ‘we will not fly to New South Wales’. We want them to continue flying, it is crucial that the freight transport and the Australians go home, so we are negotiating delicately,” he advanced .
