AUSTRALIA’S highly successful COVID-19 quarantine policy for incoming travellers is likely to evolve under plans by state governments to make Australians returning from abroad pay for their own hotel isolation.
The policy, which has already seen NSW and Vic pay millions of dollars to put arrivals up in hotels, has been widely hailed as helping contain the virus, with almost all new cases in Australia picked up during the quarantine period.
However other states including Queensland are believed to be baulking at the cost of the measure, according to a Nine Publishing report, which says NSW has already spent over $16 million to house international travellers arriving here.
Almost 21,000 people have been quarantined in NSW hotels so far, with NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrotet saying the move had been “instrumental in helping NSW flatten the curve”.
The report says today’s meeting of the National Cabinet will see Prime Minister Scott Morrison renew his call for border restrictions to be relaxed in South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland to allow travel to restart.
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