The Commonwealth Department of Health has nominated people in detention facilities as one of several groups of people in Australia at risk of serious infection from COVID-19.
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The majority of closed immigration detention facilities are currently overcrowded with up to 436 people plus revolving staff in one facility making social distancing impossible.
As Covid-19 is a public health concern for all people in our nation, I implore the Federal Government to release those who have a cleared security risk into the community as this virus is escalating.
I am very concerned Covid-19 would become an epidemic in that overcrowded enclosed environment which would put pressure on and overwhelm our state capital hospitals and health services.
There still remains no valid reason why these innocent people have not been released as there is available accommodation and full support within our communities.
Jill Horton
Port Macquarie