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23:54 EDT, 5 July 2021
A woman has allegedly escaped hotel quarantine in Queensland by scaling balconies and breaking a door, as the state records one new local cases of Covid-19.
Health authorities realised the 22-year-old Sydney woman was missing from Cairns Pacific International hotel on Monday, Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday.
She had been at the facility since July 1, and was found later that evening at her mother's house and is currently in police custody.
The Deputy Commissioner said the 'fairly motivated' woman who allegedly scaled two balconies and 'kicked a door in' is the first to successfully flee a quarantine facility in Queensland.