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Coronavirus quarantine hotel auditor needed in Australia, epidemiologist Tony Blakely says
A national effort to assess the existing quarantine effort in different states and set a standard for quarantine sites has the support of two of Australia’s leading public health experts.
Key points:
- Epidemiologist Tony Blakely proposes a quarantine auditor, which would assess and accredit quarantine sites
- A member of the Federal Government’s Infection Control Expert Group says a national standard for hotel quarantine is needed
- Professor Blakely says the environment inside some inner-city hotels makes them “extremely difficult” locations to successfully maintain quarantine
As states continue to enter lockdown after COVID-19 has escaped the hotel quarantine system, epidemiologist Professor Tony Blakely said it was time for the Federal…
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