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His situation has raised suspicion that he could be among the people who continue to shed the virus well after the infectious period.
That was the case for American tennis star Tennys Sandgren, who was allowed by health authorities to travel to Melbourne for the Australian Open, despite testing positive for COVID-19.
His medical evaluations showed that although his body was still shedding the virus, he did not represent a risk of contagion.
But Miller does not have the freedom or opportunity to undergo the same medical tests to show that he no longer represents a biosecurity risk, says Dr Sara Carrillo, an expert in public health policies at Monash University.
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An expert panel has determined that a returned traveller who was identified as having the new UK variant of COVID-19 after completing their isolation period was not infectious when they returned to the community.
A returned traveller arrived in NSW from overseas on 21 December and entered mandatory quarantine, where they tested positive for COVID-19 following their day two swab.
The person was transferred to the Special Health Accommodation, which cares for all returned travellers who test positive, and was discharged from the Special Health Accommodation at 12.10am on 5 January.
The person had been medically assessed the day before, met all exit criteria in place at the time, and on the basis of those criteria were considered clear of COVID-19.