Opposition calls for detail over Queensland quarantine exemptions

“My specialist advice is that we cannot allow people to quarantine elsewhere other than hotel quarantine or in hospital there is too much of a risk for the Queensland community,” she said.

Since June, Queensland Health has had 34,774 exemption applications for interstate travellers to enter Queensland, visit a dying relative or for other reasons.

Only 104 of those were approved, the majority for interstate arrivals with complex medical needs, a Queensland Health spokesman said on Wednesday.

Only one international traveller has been granted an exemption since November 1, which the spokesman said had been granted two months prior and “would not have been approved under the current circumstances”.

Opposition health spokeswoman Ros Bates said…