Police union hits out at officer quarantine details amid ‘untrue’ breach reports

Some officers had begun to receive calls from health authorities after questions were raised on Thursday afternoon, a police source with knowledge of the matter, but not authorised to speak on it, said.

A Queensland Health spokeswoman said all testing was based on standard public health protocols and the department would continue to work with police so officers could be released from quarantine on day 14.

The criticism came just hours before a report that a woman in her 20s had breached protocol on Monday night by returning to the hotel by other means after accompanying her father to hospital in an ambulance.

Both travellers from Lebanon would later test positive to the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant of the virus, the News Corp report…