It s just asking for trouble, he said.
Professor Toole said emerging research also pointed to face masks being 85 per cent effective in preventing transmission.
Advertisement It s as good as the AstraZeneca vaccine in terms of effectiveness and we are buying millions of doses of that, he said.
Deakin University s chair of epidemiology, Catherine Bennett, said people defined as close contacts of the growing cluster in the northern beaches had already arrived in Victoria. The real risk to Victorians is that there s people out there who may have been exposed to the virus that we don t know about yet, she said.
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Health experts say Australia s hotel quarantine system could be adapted into a tiered program in which some people would quarantine for just a few days or isolate themselves at home.
Epidemiologists warn the pandemic will last another two years and forthcoming vaccines will not necessarily eliminate all the risks of COVID-19, so some form of quarantine will still be necessary.
People returning from any country other than New Zealand must quarantine in a hotel for 14 days.