"We continue to follow the advice of the Department of Health and other health officials.
Most were medically evacuated from offshore processing facilities on Manus island in Papua New Guinea or Nauru - and some have been detained for up to 10 months in Australia, and up to seven years since landing on Christmas Island.Hundreds of experts sign open letter calling for release of prisoners to avoid coronavirus deaths
The Australian Human Rights Commission has oversight of detention facilities under the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture treaty signed by Australia in 2017. One guard employed by contractor Serco in Brisbane tested positive last month but Home Affairs said there was no transmissions to detainees at Kangaroo Point APOD, or the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation at the airport."It is not just the people who are detained, it's also the fact that many of the people who work in immigration detention facilities, they don’t sleep on site.
Re-infection rates and mutant COVID19 strains from over crowded detention center's with no preventive measures in place.. They wait until it is critical before they act and that is why there has been so many Class Action's against the Department of Home Affairs in recent years.
The advice Doctors & Medical Research Specialists, was to release detainees to prevent Detention center's becoming a hotspot for COVID19. There is a significant health risk, to those who are being detained unjustly, that corresponds to the health of the greater community.
It is only a matter of time before COVID19 rips through the detention centers and half of the people in Detention will be infected before anybody is actually tested. No isolation areas,reinfection will be higher and the virus is able to become stronger and mutation can occur.
The Department of Home Affairs has 5 cells in an area named Hotham in Villawood Immigration Detention Facility, and that it the extent of their measures in place for isolating detainees who contract Coronavirus.
Hate and racism. Plain and simple. This land never was, never will be White man's land. It is Black man's land. Face the lie.
Good luck with that
What send them back to their own country - they are criminals.
They're at less risk than employees who continue to work and face hundreds of strangers daily.
Edward. When you, and all activists, are finished championing these healthy, sheltered and well fed foreigners, could you turn to the urgent plight of the forgotten homeless Australians? I know they're predominantly white, but don't their lives matter too?
How many have contracted COVID 19 in the detention centres? None!!! They are safer in isolation
Release them where? 😩😩
Deport them back to their little pop-up homes overseas - if they are not satisfied with the hotel rooms, food & service -
They will be fine and safe where they are