Plans to let people staying in quarantine hotels to be allowed to leave their rooms have been described as "very risky". Australian epidemiologist Professor Michael Toole raised concern over the UK's rules on quarantine hotels for travellers arriving from coronavirus "red list" countries, which are weaker than those enforced in Australia. “Guests” in hotels Down Under are banned from leaving their rooms.
But British rules say security staff can "accompany any of the arrived individuals to access outside space should they need to smoke or get fresh air".
Prof Toole, from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Victoria, said allowing travellers quarantining in hotels to leave their rooms with guards is "very risky".
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