Health
UK to let quarantined leave rooms for air – PerthNow
UK Home Office minister Victoria Atkins says it is reasonable to allow travellers quarantining in hotels a “gulp of fresh air”.
The UK government has insisted its hotel quarantine policy is in line with other countries after an Australian epidemiologist warned that allowing travellers to leave their room for fresh air is “very risky”.
Professor Michael Toole from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne suggested the UK could learn from his country, where preventative measures initially focused on stopping the spread of coronavirus by large droplets but had to be strengthened.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today program that the precautions…
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