News by Janelle Miles & Michael Wray 5th Feb 2021 4:32 AM
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Subscriber only Hotel quarantine guests face limits on the number of times they can open their doors under new protocols triggered by fears the Houdini-like COVID-19 virus could escape into hallways.
The Courier-Mail understands the report into the Hotel Grand Chancellor coronavirus cluster recommends changes to tighten hotel quarantine protocols, including ensuring guests wear masks when they open their doors, even when they are picking up linen or meals left outside. But it found no smoking gun of blame. It comes as hotel quarantine problems is set to dominate the National Cabinet agenda today and after Prime Minister Scott Morrison left the door open to using Toowoomba for supplementary capacity for international arrivals.
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Subscriber only A Brisbane man who had returned from Melbourne in the peak of its months-long lockdown claims he was forced to catch a taxi on two occasions from hospital while in mandatory state imposed hotel quarantine - despite not yet returning a negative result to COVID-19. Joshua Walker, aged in his 20s, had been working in inner city Melbourne during the height of the country s COVID-19 pandemic in August - while the southern state had been thrust into hard lockdown after recording hundreds of coronavirus related deaths. The information comes to light as The Courier-Mail yesterday revealed a police investigation had been launched in relation to an alleged quarantine breach at a Gold Coast hotel.
Health by Elise Williams
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Subscriber only A Brisbane man who had returned from Melbourne in the peak of its months-long lockdown claims he was forced to catch a taxi on two occasions from hospital while in mandatory state imposed hotel quarantine - despite not yet returning a negative result to COVID-19. Joshua Walker, aged in his 20s, had been working in inner city Melbourne during the height of the country s COVID-19 pandemic in August - while the southern state had been thrust into hard lockdown after recording hundreds of coronavirus related deaths. The information comes to light as The Courier-Mail yesterday revealed a police investigation had been launched in relation to an alleged quarantine breach at a Gold Coast hotel.