Posts Tagged ‘COVID-19’

The Australian Quarantine Experience – Doctors perspective

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Dr Jo-Anne Grey
MBBS FRACGP MPH DTMH CTH®

TMA member based in Melbourne

Since the bottom fell out of international travel with the global spread of the SARS-CoV2 and the subsequent declaration of the pandemic by the WHO, my life as a day-to-day travel medicine practitioner has changed dramatically.  As part of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 response workforce, I now spend my days in Melbourne’s quarantine hotels, conducting telehealth consultations with returned travellers in their hotel rooms and donning and doffing PPE to make “house calls” to rooms where necessary.

• Posted on June 20, 2020
• Posted in Brisbane, Disease
• Tags: COVID-19

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Covid-19 and cruising

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Dr Stanley Khoo, TMA member
Travel Medicine Centre Perth

The fresh sea air, the relaxing motion of the ocean, the high staff to passenger ratio, these are some of the many factors that have attracted people to cruise travel. Some destinations such as the Arctic and the Antarctic can only be accessible by boat, and sometimes a cruise ship with its remarkable facilities is the destination itself; a miniature city of restaurants, cinemas, concerts, casinos, night clubs and swimming pools, with a plethora of entertainment opportunities and unlimited food and drink.

• Posted on June 8, 2020
• Posted in Other, Perth
• Tags: COVID-19

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Aeroplanes parked in the desert….

Dr John Kenafake – Sunshine Coast Dive & Travel Medicine

 

Aeroplanes parked in the desert -?It doesn’t bode well for international travel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the travel blog you’re having when you’re not travelling. I will deliberately NOT use the “C “ word [that’s Covid] much as we are all inundated with information on the dastardly virus. Besides, anything I write will probably be out of date by the time this is uploaded.

• Posted on May 13, 2020
• Posted in Sunshine Coast
• Tags: COVID-19

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