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Long-term UK resident Jane Quick with her mother Ellie.
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Jane Quick is one of the lucky ones.
She has a flat in West London and a good job with caring employers who allow her to work from home and the office to help maintain her sanity .
But the 20-year resident of the United Kingdom hasn t seen her family for two years and would desperately love to come home for three months.
Ms Quick said she never planned to stay away so long but had a job she loved and put down roots overseas.
Queensland Health cracks down on coronavirus hotel quarantine exemptions as UK variant found in returned traveller
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DecDecember 2020 at 8:22am
Only 104 people were granted exemptions to bypass hotel quarantine out of nearly 35,000 applications made to Queensland Health since June.
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Health authorities in Queensland are cracking down on hotel quarantine exemptions following a surge in coronavirus cases overseas and the emergence of more contagious variants.
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A recently returned traveller has tested positive to the UK variant of COVID-19
A new border checkpoint has been set up at the border crossing on the Gold Coast