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World Health Organisation says wealthy countries should not make citizens pay for quarantine
Rich countries like Australia should not be charging their citizens for hotel quarantine, according to the World Health Organisation. Dr Mike Ryan, who heads the WHO’s public health emergencies program, said the International Health Regulation, which has been adopted by member states, recommends the traveller “should not suffer economically from measures designed to protect the health of the population as a whole”.
“That is then unfairly burdening an individual with the cost of a public health action,”…
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