Simon Harris: Forcing fully vaccinated people to hotel quarantine is 'illogical'

Simon Harris said it 'seems illogical' to make fully vaccinated people with negative PCR tests quarantine in a hotel.

Simon Harris said it 'seems illogical' to make fully vaccinated people with negative PCR tests quarantine in a hotel.

Higher Education Minister Simon Harris has said it was his “very firm view” that people who were fully vaccinated and had negative PCR tests should not have to quarantine in a hotel.

To force them to do so “seems illogical”, he said, adding that mandatory hotel quarantine was a “short, sharp, blunt instrument”. 

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