{"id":41866,"date":"2020-05-29T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=41866"},"modified":"2020-05-29T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:07:34","slug":"nicola-spurrier-apologises-after-blaming-victoria-for-border-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nicola-spurrier-apologises-after-blaming-victoria-for-border-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Spurrier Apologises After Blaming Victoria For Border Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SA\u2019s chief medical officer Professor Nicola Spurrier has apologised after initially blaming Victoria when a British woman \u2013 who later tested positive for COVID-19 \u2013 was able to arrive in Adelaide unannounced.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Spurrier said on Thursday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cMany people will appreciate it is easy to overlook an email\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cI looked at the email trail that I\u2019d been provided with and it did look as though we hadn\u2019t received that information, that bit of crucial information about the day this person arrived.<\/p><p>\u201cSubsequently, we have spoken to Victoria and they did send an earlier email and I do apologise to Victorians in that regard. It has been an oversight from our department<\/p><p>\u201cWe really need to review our processes. What\u2019s really clear is we should not be relying on email information for something this important\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cI do apologise \u2026 the last thing I want to do is kick a Vic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked whether she was embarrassed after earlier blaming Victoria, Professor Spurrier said: \u201cI am running a response to a pandemic, I don\u2019t have time to be embarrassed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SA has now <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/sa-has-just-banned-compassionate-travel-exemptions-for-overseas-visitors\/\">banned compassionate travel exemptions for overseas visitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3\/3<br>Professor Spurrier not embarrased by the error of blaming Victoria for the faux pas today, \u201cI am running a response to a pandemic, I don\u2019t have time to be embarrased\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIVEaaNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIVEaaNews<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matthew Pantelis\ud83c\udf99 (@MatthewPantelis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewPantelis\/status\/1265909521123168257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prof. Spurrier has blamed the volume of emails for staff missing a crucial email sent on Saturday notifying when the UK woman was due to land in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Adelaide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Adelaide<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dZLXF5BU1n\">https:\/\/t.co\/dZLXF5BU1n<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Advertiser (@theTiser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theTiser\/status\/1265899050911404032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA\u2019s chief medical officer Professor Nicola Spurrier has apologised after initially blaming Victoria when a British woman \u2013 who later tested positive for COVID-19 \u2013 was able to arrive in Adelaide unannounced. Professor Spurrier said on Thursday: \u201cMany people will appreciate it is easy to overlook an email\u2026\u201cI looked at the email trail that I\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-41866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nicola Spurrier Apologises After Blaming Victoria For Border Mistake - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nicola-spurrier-apologises-after-blaming-victoria-for-border-mistake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nicola Spurrier Apologises After Blaming Victoria For Border Mistake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SA\u2019s chief medical officer Professor Nicola Spurrier has apologised after initially blaming Victoria when a British woman \u2013 who later tested positive for COVID-19 \u2013 was able to arrive in Adelaide unannounced. 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