South Australia's opposition calls for end to hotel quarantine as state exits lockdown

Labor leader Peter Malinauskas says putting returned travellers into city hotels ‘does not work’

South Australia’s opposition leader has called for a halt on putting returned travellers in hotel quarantine until a safer system can be put in place, as the state emerged from its temporary lockdown on Sunday.

Labor opposition leader Peter Malinauskas wrote to premier Steven Marshall on Sunday and said the outbreak from hotel quarantine in Adelaide and the second wave experienced in Victoria as a result of its hotel quarantine issues showed that putting returned travellers in CBD hotels “with subcontracted private security simply does not work”.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2UQV5o6
via
0 Comments