'And they wonder how people get infected': Pilot in hotel quarantine posts video of air rushing into his room from the apartment next door
- Man posts video of air rushing into room from suite next door in hotel quarantine
- Taize Taylor posted clip to TikTok while inside Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise
- Air can be heard flowing into his room from adjoining apartment next door
A trainee pilot serving his mandatory two weeks in hotel quarantine has shown the ease in which coronavirus can spread as leaders continue to call for specialised facilities.
In a clip posted to TikTok, Taize Taylor films air flowing into his room through an adjoining door from the suite next to him.
'And they wonder how people get infected while in hotel quarantine quarantine... I'm in a room that adjoins to people next to me,' the man says.
'That door is locked... but the air is RUSHING into my room.'
In a clip posted to TikTok Taize Taylor films air flowing into his room through an adjoining door from the suite next to him
Mr Taylor says he is staying at the Crowne Plaza in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast after returning from overseas.
The footage shows the returning Australian recording the main door to his room before panning across to another door adjoining his room to another.
In the video air can clearly be heard rushing into his room from the other. It's not know whether the people in the other room have also returned from overseas.
The air whistles through the door as the trainee pilot records the clip.
'They make you close your balcony doors and turn your bathroom exhaust off... so of course they should think about this too?' Mr Taylor replies to a comment accusing him of 'overthinking things'.
Another person staying at the Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise commented on the footage saying: 'I've got the adjoining door too!'
'Move rooms immediately. My dad is an airline pilot and he always has to move rooms when they put him next to people in quarantine,' a woman said.
'I thought they wouldn't put people in adjoining rooms. I was a bit shocked,' Mr Taylor replied.
Many TikTok users noted that hotels 'weren't made for this', again reiterating the point repeatedly being made by state politicians that Australia should be building specialised quarantine facilities.
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise for comment.
Australia is slowly cutting itself off from the world after the government announced it will halve the number of people allowed to enter the country, as it struggles to contain the Indiant coronavirus variant that has plunged millions into lockdown. Pictured: Passengers line up to check in at Sydney Airport on June 23
Debate for more quarantine facilities like the one the Northern Territory has at Howards Springs (pictured) has continued
Under the current 'zero Covid' strategy, just 3,000 people are allowed to enter Australia on overseas commercial flights each week and arrivals must undergo two weeks of hotel quarantine.
'This reduction in international arrivals is devastating news for the more than 34,000 Australians still stranded overseas and their families,' said Sophie McNeill of Human Rights Watch.
'Australia has heavily restricted entry of its own citizens in a way that no other democratic nation has. But we need to remember that all Australians have a right of return to their own country.'
Meanwhile, the NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has expressed an interest in a new quarantine facility being built in his state after Victoria secured an agreement with the Commonwealth for one last week,
Queensland has also proposed for one similar to former mining camp Howard Springs in the Northern Territory.
Mr Perrottet says NSW has done the heavy lifting when it comes to hotel quarantining and setting up a facility may assist over the next 12 months to alleviate pressure on its hotel system.
'That is something we should look at,' Mr Perrottet said.
'The federal government has said it will support these types of facilities in other states and we want to work to a proposal that makes sense and keeps our people safe.'
Lockdown: George Street was empty on Tuesday morning in the central business district of Sydney
But Mr Hunt said Prime Minister Scott Morrison had already been in contact with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
'The PM has confirmed with the premier that at this point they're not seeking any additional quarantine facility in New South Wales,' Mr Hunt said.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese said national government-run, purpose-built quarantine facilities should have been in place last year.
'That was the best time to do this, the best next time is right now,' he told Sky News' Sunday Agenda program.
He pointed out that building quarantine facilities is Labor policy, as announced in last month's budget reply speech.
'This needs to fixed now, not wait until after the next federal election which will occur perhaps as late as May of next year,' he said.
'We can't afford to keep having these lockdowns.'
