Queensland authorities are cracking down on hotel quarantine exemptions in a bid to stop highly-contagious mutant strains escaping into the community. It comes as three new cases were revealed in Queensland today, all acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine, taking the state s active cases to 14. Queensland Health has revealed it has approved just 104 exemption requests out of 34,774 lodged since June for overseas and domestic travellers to skip government-mandated hotel quarantine and instead do their mandatory 14-days isolation at home. Barry Parmenter is one of thousands who have spent 14 days in hotel quarantine. Photographer: Liam Kidston. But exemptions have become even more scarce since November when only one international traveller was granted an exemption as Queensland Health tightened criteria in the wake of outbreaks interstate when the virus escaped quarantine.