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A top doctor has backed calls for an overhaul of Victoria’s hotel quarantine program amid concerns it is struggling to contain mutant strains of coronavirus.
Dr Stephen Duckett, director of health at the Grattan Institute, told Today quarantine centres should be moved from metropolitan districts to regional or remote areas.
“We’ve got to actually try and make the quarantine system better, probably having it more remote from metropolitan areas is probably a good thing but this is something we have…
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