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There have been calls to expand hotel quarantine and have the federal government take it over, rather than individual states taking care of their own systems.
But Mr Morrison said Australia’s system was working better than any other country’s.
“If I told you a year ago, just over a year ago, when the National Cabinet agreed to put in place a system of hotel quarantine … that we would achieve a 99.99 per cent success rate, you wouldn’t have believed me. No-one in this country would have believed me. I would have found that hard to believe. But that’s what the hotel quarantine system has achieved.
“Hotel quarantine is the first ring of containment. With a 99.99 success rate is pretty good. I don’t think there’s not a country in the world…
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