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COVID-19 cases escaping hotel quarantine are ‘clearly all from aerosol transmission’, experts say
As Australians once again grapple with a case of COVID-19 slipping through the hotel quarantine system, experts are insisting “this is going to keep happening” unless health authorities do more to prevent the aerosol transmission of the virus.
Key points:
- Experts insist Australia must “take aerosol transmission seriously”
- They say cases of COVID-19 will continue to escape the hotel quarantine system if the advice does not change
- Victorian authorities say there was “no breach of protocol” by a hotel quarantine worker who tested positive for the disease
Epidemiologist at the Burnet Institute professor Mike Toole said Australia would be in for “more groundhog days” if advice did not change.
“Why does this keep happening? The answer is that…
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