Australians returning from overseas could have the option to quarantine at home but they may be tracked with an ankle bracelet or police check-in app | katinacurtis
Australians returning from overseas could have the option to quarantine at home but they may be tracked with an ankle bracelet or police check-in app.
The quick implementation of that decision has come under fire from lawyers assisting the inquiry into how the virus escaped from quarantine hotels in Victoria. "If you have small children, if you have disabilities, if you have special needs, how we might accommodate those needs going forward," she said. "Is it in a hotel? Are there any ways or means that we can increase that capacity so we can get more Australians home?"a new app WA Police are using
Professor Raina MacIntyre says allowing returning travellers to home quarantine could have worse outcomes the next time around."There's a lot more COVID-19 around the world than there was back then so the same problems that we had back then – which is that we had people breaching the home quarantine – are likely to occur again but potentially with worse outcomes this time around," she said.
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