International travellers returning home will soon be charged for hotel quarantine in SA, after the State Government deemed they had been given 'plenty of time' to get back by now.
International travellers returning home will soon be charged up to $3,000 each for hotel quarantine in South Australia, ending free supervised isolation for those coming into the state.The charges will be introduced in SA from SaturdaySA Premier Steven Marshall today announced that individuals will have to pay for 14-day quarantine in Adelaide hotels, starting from Saturday later this week.
Mr Marshall said the SA Government would not make any profit from the charges, but that they would recover costs. Hundreds of Australians arriving at Adelaide Airport from overseas have been taken into mandatory hotel quarantine since the introduction of travel restrictions aimed at preventing COVID-19 outbreaks in South Australia.
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