COVID-Positive Hotel Ready for Guests International travellers in South Australia who test positive for COVID-19 infection will be transferred to a new dedicated facility from tomorrow, as the Marshall Liberal Government declared Tom’s Court officially open to guests. It’s expected the 72-bed hotel in Adelaide’s CBD will predominantly house new international arrivals, but rooms will also be available should there be any further cases of community transmission in South Australia, marking a significant enhancement of the State's quarantine process. Minister for Health and Wellbeing Stephen Wade said, along with tough border controls, the imminent vaccine roll-out, physical distancing, and robust testing, hotel quarantine is one of the most important tools we have in the fight to keep South Australians safe from the spread of COVID-19. “Over the last few months we have strengthened our State’s hotel quarantine process delivering on our commitment to make the health and safety of South Australians our number one priority as we support Australian citizens and permanent residents to come home,” Minister Wade said. “All travellers with an active COVID-19 infection will be transferred to Tom’s Court to be managed in an enhanced quarantine environment with a 24/7 nursing and SAPOL staff presence. In some cases, travellers who are close contacts will also be transferred if they are part of the same family.
“The hotel is part of the Marshall Liberal Government’s eight-point plan to improve the State’s medi-hotel system in the wake of the Parafield cluster last November. The importance of a dedicated facility has only been strengthened by recent medi-hotel outbreaks in Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne.” Approximately 16 SA Health and 41 South Australia Police (SAPOL) staff with medi-hotel experience have been selected to work exclusively in the facility for nursing and security purposes. “Unlike other medi-hotels in Adelaide, where private companies have been employed to provide security, Tom's Court will be exclusively staffed by SA Health and SA Police,” Minister Wade said. “Across any one 24-hour period, Tom’s Court can have approximately 10 nurses, 24 SAPOL staff, and eight hotel concierge and cleaning staff on site – however these numbers can change depending on how many guests are at the facility at the one time. “Staff will be not be deployed to other medi-hotels or high-risk environments, including hospitals, aged care facilities and corrections facilities.” To make the South Australian hotel quarantine process as safe as possible, daily saliva testing for more than 1,000 medi-hotel workers in the State started in January and was fully rolled out by Monday, in addition to receiving PCR testing every seven days.
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