Manages potentially Very resource intensive human Develop guidelines and advice – infectious individuals and financial Prepare templates for advisory Slows down and possibly Logistically challenging and need notices delays infection to ensure provision of essential Work with employer transmission in a country services (safe food, medicine organisations, unions and other and communication means, etc) Ensures compliance with relevant agencies to engage containment, health Political, ethical and possibly legal employer cooperation monitoring and illness implications from confinement of Work with suppliers of essential reporting large number of travellers goods and services to consider (especially foreigners) Can be combined with other the impacts on these industries appropriate medical Potentially extremely stressful Ensure arrangements with hotel measures (treatments, and disruptive for travellers chains, individual hotels (and isolation, testing etc) at The need to manage the direct other accommodation onset of symptoms and indirect cost and negative providers) for operation as Ensures rapid detection of consequence of quarantine facilities are in place new cases compulsory quarantine of Prepare templates for international travellers can be requisitioning facilities, very serious (including human compulsory quarantine, etc right issue) Consider establishing a May cause concerns about quarantine facility ‘government’ financial loss to international Public health officers have travellers (eg, business people) processes and procedures and need to address (including forms) for compensation issues implementing voluntary or Commercial facilities not secure mandatory quarantine. enough for compulsory quarantine of non-compliant travellers Facilities for special needs people
Manages potentially infectious individuals Slows down and possibly delays infection transmission in a country Ensures compliance with containment, health monitoring and illness reporting Can be combined with other appropriate medical measures (treatments, isolation, testing etc) at onset of symptoms Ensures rapid detection of new cases Very resource intensive – human and financial Logistically challenging and need to ensure provision of essential services (safe food, medicine and communication means, etc) Political, ethical and possibly legal implications from confinement of large number of travellers (especially foreigners) Potentially extremely stressful and disruptive for travellers The need to manage the direct and indirect cost and negative consequence of compulsory quarantine of international travellers can be very serious (including human right issue) May cause concerns about financial loss to international travellers (eg, business people) and need to address compensation issues Commercial facilities not secure enough for compulsory quarantine of non-compliant travellers Facilities for special needs people Develop guidelines and advice Prepare templates for advisory notices Work with employer organisations, unions and other relevant agencies to engage employer cooperation Work with suppliers of essential goods and services to consider the impacts on these industries Ensure arrangements with hotel chains, individual hotels (and other accommodation providers) for operation as quarantine facilities are in place Prepare templates for requisitioning facilities, compulsory quarantine, etc Consider establishing a ‘government’ quarantine facility Public health officers have processes and procedures (including forms) for implementing voluntary or mandatory quarantine.
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