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'@@ -1,0 +1,1 @@ +India's spiraling Covid-19 crisis could lead to outbreaks and lockdowns in Australia because the hotel quarantine system is 'not fit for purpose' and flights from the high-risk nation should be immediately banned, doctors and politicians have warned.  <br>In the last 24 hours alone, India recorded 332,730 new coronavirus cases and one in three people are testing positive in the capital, New Delhi, many suffering from highly infectious and more deadly mutant strains of the virus.<br>The disastrous outbreak, which has pushed hospitals to breaking point and required the mass burning of bodies in the streets, is already affecting Australia with a huge spike in cases among travellers from India in quarantine.<br> India's Covid death toll could be ten times higher than is being officially reported, according to analysis of the numbers being burned in crematoriums.<br><br>[https://fresnobeehive.com/news fresnobeehive.com]Pictured: A man walks past a burning funeral pyres of people who died from Covid-19 at a crematorium ground in New Delhi<br> Relatives and family members carry the dead body of a Covid-19 victim for a cremation at Nigambodh Ghat Crematorium, on the banks of the Yamuna river in New Delhi in the early hours of Thursday<br> Sydney recorded 18 new cases in quarantine on Friday and the Northern Territory recorded 12, of which 11 were from India. <br>The alarming rise has prompted Scott Morrison to cut flights from India by 30 per cent and require anyone travelling to get a negative test in any transit country before flying on to Australia.<br>However, medical experts are warning these moves are not enough - and that major quarantine changes need to be made to prevent outbreaks. <br>Australia has suffered 14 outbreaks caused by leaks from hotel quarantine since November, including six in Sydney and three in Brisbane.<br><br>Sydney's Northern Beaches Christmas lockdown is believed to be caused by infected travellers but no direct link was ever found. <br>Dr David Berger, an emergency flying doctor who practices in Lightning Ridge, NSW, published a paper in the [ ] on Wednesday which called for regional worker camps to be used instead of high-rise hotels and called for flights from India to be banned.<br>He has written an [ ] to the government, signed by 350 colleagues, which calls for experts to recognise that Covid transmits in the air, not through contact or droplets as currently believed. <br>His paper says that between November and mid January 'approximately 1 in 200 hotel quarantine cases led to infections outside the hvac system qualification protocol ([https://www.tuugo.us/Companies/paschal-air-plumbing-electric1/0310006698128 https://www.tuugo.us/Companies/paschal-air-plumbing-electric1/0310006698128])' causing outbreaks in Sydney, Melbourne Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth. <br> Another 314,835 infections were reported on Thursday, the world record for a daily cases figure.<br><br>Pictured: A graph showing India's 7-day-average daily new coronavirus infections<br> Funeral pyres at a makeshift crematorium in the capital Delhi on Wednesday, the city of 29 millions is rapidly running out of hospital beds for patients, oxygen supplies and even basic medication<br>Discussing his paper on [ ]radio, Dr Berger said: 'Almost all of those are variants.<br><br>This virus is airborne. There is no documented case of transmission from contact such as lift buttons or surfaces. It can be transmitted over significant distances and ventilation is critical to this.<br>'Unfortunately these hotels that we're using were never designed for people to be cooped up in them for two weeks with no opening windows. <br>'They have gaps under the doors, the ventilation is not designed to be infectious disease proof.<br><br>They're just not suitable. These facilities are just not designed for it.'<br>He said the quarantine system needs a total overhaul, adding: 'We need to move to a situation where we have air-gapped quarantine like they do in the Northern Territory.<br><br>Australia is full of mining camps and such like.<br>'It is not beyond the wit of Australia to establish mini caravan parks or mining camps close to major cities, where they can have access to fresh air and there is zero risk of cross contamination. <br>'Until we do that we are not going to be safe.<br><br>We are going to have to pause travel and get better facilities.' <br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox news" data-version="2" id="mol-f2396970-a3e1-11eb-965f-61788a10937b" website horrific Covid tsunami could overwhelm hotel quarantine '