WA quarantine hotels wear big risk for little reward as ‘temporary’ fix drags on We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Fifteen months ago, amid the height of global panic about COVID-19, national cabinet agreed on a new requirement for overseas travellers to spend 14 days of isolation at hotels or other approved facilities. In the weeks prior, states had begun using hotels – which at that point amid the first, frightening national lockdown and closed borders were on the edge of a financial cliff staring at occupancy rates near zero – as quarantine facilities amid heightened concern that home isolation was insufficiently secure.