Mercy flight from India to touch down in Adelaide today – as 440 Aussies on board prepare for 14-day quarantine
- Almost 900 Australian citizens to be flown into Adelaide from abroad this week
- A Lion Air repatriation flight from India scheduled to arrive in the city on Monday
- Another flight carrying the same number of passengers will arrive on Tuesday
- Those on-board the flights will be quarantined at the Pullman hotel for 14 days
- SA Health said the 880 arrivals would be tested and monitored for symptoms
Almost 900 Australian citizens will be flown into Adelaide from overseas over the next two days, with authorities vowing to closely monitor them for coronavirus symptoms during their 14 day quarantine.
A Lion Air repatriation flight from India carrying 440 people will possibly stop in Singapore and Indonesia before arriving in the South Australian capital on Monday.
Those on-board will be quarantined at the Pullman hotel for 14 days.
International travellers arriving back into Australia on March 29 to go into mandatory quarantine. Almost 900 Australian citizens will be flown into Adelaide on mercy flights over the next two days from overseas
A Lion Air repatriation flight will be flown into Adelaide on Monday carrying 440 people into Australia - where they will spend 14 days in hotel quarantine (stock photo)
Passengers arriving at Sydney Airport to be taken into hotel quarantine last Monday. The new arrivals into Adelaide will be tested before getting off their flights
Another flight, which is expected to leave from the Indian city of Mumbai carrying the same number of passengers, will arrive on Tuesday.
SA Health chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier said the 880 passengers would be tested after they disembarked and monitored daily for symptoms.
'We will not be risking the health and well-being of our population,' she told reporters on Sunday.
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Police commissioner Grant Stevens said about 45 officers would monitor the building to ensure people don't leave prematurely.
'Given the excellent results we've seen in terms of limiting the spread of the virus in South Australia, we're taking the security of these people extremely seriously,' Mr Stevens said.
No new cases of coronavirus were recorded in the state over the weekend despite a testing blitz in recent days.
The total remains at 435 and only 89 cases are active.
'I think we can say we're not losing the war,' Professor Spurrier said.
'We're in a really good place in South Australia.
'We've got very, very high testing rates and that's partly because of SA Pathology being able to provide it but also because South Australians are coming forward and getting tested at the right time.'
