Australia by mistake allowed crew to debark from a cargo ship without testing them for Covid-19, although they said they had fever. Now it is about to make another mistake, keeping everyone else on the ship and making them sail it away "as soon as possible".

Surely they know about the flying dutchmen ships whose crews have been prisoners on their ships, for months? Is Australia aiming to impose that fate on this crew?

Those who want off the ship should be allowed off, and quarantined separately long enough to establish who is not sick. Then, if given assurance that their next destination will let them dock, they could take the ship away.