Explainer

How people get COVID-19 in quarantine

Steve Evans
February 15 2021 - 12:30am
A cleaner during the disinfection of the Holiday Inn hotel in Melbourne, where the latest coronavirus outbreak came out of. Picture: Getty Images
A cleaner during the disinfection of the Holiday Inn hotel in Melbourne, where the latest coronavirus outbreak came out of. Picture: Getty Images

The idea is that quarantine protects people from infection by the coronavirus. Quarantine is meant to be a guarantee of health and not the transmitter of illness.

Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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