WA hotel quarantine security guards to be given greater powers to stop people breaching rules

Security guards at Western Australia’s quarantine hotels will be given specific powers to stop people leaving and breaching quarantine directions, Acting Premier Roger Cook has announced.

Following a review of the state’s hotel quarantine system, the Health Department will also review the physical barriers designed to stop people from leaving hotels before the end of their two-week stay.

The review was announced on Sunday after returned overseas traveller Jenny D’Ubios walked out unopposed from a low-security…