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Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It’s far from ‘fit for purpose’ – The Conversation AU

The government says hotel quarantine is ‘serving Australia very well’. But if you look at the leaks as a proportion of COVID-positive returnees, it’s a different…

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With Melbourne under lockdown for another seven days, the consequences of Australias inefficient and dangerous quarantine system continue.
This outbreak started with just one leak from hotel quarantine in South Australia in early May. And unless the hotel quarantine system gets a serious shake up and fast were likely to see more outbreaks.
Our analysis shows for every 204 infected travellers in hotel quarantine in Australia, there is one leak.
We have known since August 2020, through the World…

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