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Breaking for a moment from Australian news, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday it recommended that all people avoid cruise ship travel as the risk of Covid-19 on liners is very high.
It advised passengers who decide to go on a cruise to get tested three to five days after their trip and stay home for seven days after travel, even if they test negative.
Berejiklian is asked about her approach compared to that of other states. She doesn’t agree with lockdowns in response to a few cases.
We have obviously learned a lot about the virus and what - and how we can handle the pandemic sinceMarch when we had the lockdown, February, March, when it first became apparent how serious the situation was. And certainly in the last months, we have learned a lot about our capacity to be resilient.
So it would really depend on to the extent that other states were able to control community transmission and keep that down, but what’s been demonstrated to me is that other states are moving very quickly to shut down their entire economies when they have a couple of cases.
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