Health officials said Mercedes Maguire would have to spend two weeks in quarantine and as a best case scenario could leave isolation to visit her mother at her Hobart home for two hours at a time.
Journalist Mercedes Maguire was told she must quarantine for 14 days before seeing her mother Teresa Florez in Hobart after officials refused a request for a travel exemption.
New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet and Health Minister Brad Hazzard are asking their Tasmanian counterparts to consider a "compassionate" exemption after a Sydney woman, who was denied entry into Hobart to see her dying mother, issued a heartfelt plea.
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