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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.
Key points:
- The new powers will help prevent future breaches, the Acting Premier says
- Rules used to assess if travellers are high-risk are also being tightened
- It comes as a 34-year-old man has been charged with breaching quarantine
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…
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