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As international travellers return to Melbourne, will it be third time lucky for Victoria’s controversial hotel quarantine system?
International flights into Melbourne are set to resume today. Arrivals will be capped at 800 people in the first week, before increasing to 1,120 from April 15.
Author Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute
This marks the third time a hotel quarantine system has been launched in Victoria. After a series of mishaps, is this revamped version finally up to scratch?
A bumpy road
On March 28 last year, National Cabinet mandated 14 days of supervised quarantine for international arrivals across the country.
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Hotel COVID-19 quarantine is not foolproof, so is it time to reconsider home quarantine for returned travellers?
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Home quarantine is not on the national agenda at the moment, but experts suggest it could be an option when vaccination rates increase.
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Since March 2020, more than 211,000 people have returned to Australia through hotel quarantine.
While some coronavirus cases have leaked out into the community in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia, so far the outbreaks have been able to be controlled.
There were 24 cases of coronavirus in a cluster that was traced back to the Melbourne airport Holiday Inn quarantine hotel.
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