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Quarantine pressure grows as infection rates now 18 times higher
Thursday March 18, 2021
Another eight cases of COVID-19 have been detected in Queensland hotel quarantine – six of those in travellers returning from Papua New Guinea.
Flights from Papua New Guinea are being restricted due to the country’s COVID-19 epidemic. (Supplied)
The news came a day after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced travel from PNG would be restricted, with passenger flights into Cairns suspended and caps on flights into Brisbane reduced.
The Palaszczuk government has also ramped up health services in the Torres Strait, and transferred all COVID-19 patients from…
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