Thread by @LorraineBranna2

🚨Info on the NSW Airport Quarantine Breach

For starters it was a Car rental employee who tipped off authorities to travellers who skipped Sydney Hotel Quarantine & flew to Melbourne

The travellers, who flew from GERMANY, are understood to have used online services to

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check into a domestic flight & fly to Melbourne on Sat afternoon, which later sparked a warning to 130 of their fellow passengers to ISOLATE immediately.

Vic Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed reports that an employee at a car rental company had overheard a conversation,

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picked up something wasnt right & reported the matter to authorities.
(shows how luck can often play a significant role in whether there's a Covid Outbreak. ie NSW has been VERY LUCKY to date)

It remains unknown how the pair managed to leave Sydney's international airport

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– which is heavily guarded by POLICE & MILITARY – & enter the domestic airport without being shepherded straight into Hotel Quarantine with all OTHER Overseas arrivals.

Mr Andrews is awaiting the NSW investigation to find out EXACTLY WHAT OCCURRED.

A Virgin Australia

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spokeswoman said the airline had asked NSW Health HOW the guests were able to LEAVE the international airport WITHOUT going into Hotel Quarantine.

Vic Health Minister Martin Foley said that the INITIAL TESTS of the 2 international travellers have returned NEGATIVE results

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The travellers will REMAIN in Mandatory Quarantine in Victoria & continue to be monitored through the virus' incubation period & will be TESTED AGAIN on Mon & day 11.

✴️Update:
SkyNews recently reported that NSW Police have taken the Blame for this Sydney Breach.

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Apparently they ALLOWED the couple to SKIP Hotel Quarantine.

NSW Police will now be undertaking a REVIEW of its systems in light of this recent BLUNDER.

The 💩🌟 State Strikes Again!

#GuiltyGladyMustGo
#TimesUpKoalakiller

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