The privately owned facility designed to quarantine Covid-positive patients, cost taxpayers $190 million but has been rendered almost useless after mandatory isolation rules were scrapped.
Non-hotel quarantine options months away
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Alternatives to using hotel rooms for quarantining international arrivals, which medical experts say are flawed, are unlikely to be available any time soon.
Andrew Miller, the head of the Australian Medical Association in Western Australia, slammed federal and state governments for persisting with “faulty” hotel quarantine, calling both sides “grossly negligent”.
“The issue is that hotel quarantine isn’t fit for purpose,” he said. “Hotels cannot be made safe for COVID-19-positive people. Governments need to put money into building mining camps.
“I’m told it can be done within a couple of months.”