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Queensland Health crack down on coronavirus hotel quarantine exemptions as police establish new border checkpoint
Health authorities in Queensland are cracking down on hotel quarantine exemptions following a surge in coronavirus cases overseas and the emergence of more contagious variants.
Key points:
- Only 104 exemptions to bypass hotel quarantine have been approved since June
- One international traveller has been exempt from bypassing hotel quarantine since November
- A new border checkpoint has been set up at the border crossing on the Gold Coast
Queensland Health has revealed it has approved just 104 requests to home quarantine out of more than 34,774 exemption applications made to the state’s health department since June.
In a statement, the department said many requests were from people living interstate, hoping to…
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