It has become abundantly clear that the dense inner-city hotels used to accommodate international arrivals are inadequate for quarantining purposes. Breaches of these facilities were behind Melbourne’s two ‘outbreaks’, alongside Adelaide’s, Brisbane’s and Perth’s, which each resulted in hard city/state-wide lockdowns.
Sensing an a unique business opportunity, two billionaires have stepped-up to provide quarantine facilities located away from the capital cities.
Trucking magnate Lindsay Fox has proposed constructing a COVID-19 quarantine facility at the Linfox-owned Avalon Airport, which is about 55 kilometres from Melbourne. Fox is in talks with the federal and Victorian governments about the facility, which would be able to house up to 1,000 returned travellers at a time.
