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Perth and Peel residents emerge from COVID lockdown, but stoush over hotel quarantine continues
The nation’s peak medical lobby says there is no excuse for Australia to be using hotel quarantine to house returned travellers, more than a year into the pandemic.
Key points:
- The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says hotels should not be used for quarantine
- AMA WA President Andrew Miller says governments have failed to acknowledge airborne transmission in hotels
- Dr Miller wants governments to come up with alternative accommodation for returned travellers
After three days of unease and doubt, Perth and the Peel region will return to relative normality on Tuesday, after a snap three-day lockdown ended at midnight.
The lockdown was triggered on Friday after a Victorian man tested positive to COVID-19 in Melbourne, almost a week after…
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