'No exemptions to hotel quarantine rules in Australia'

Dr Niall Conroy is an Irish consultant in public health medicine working in Queensland, Australia.

There are no exemptions to mandatory hotel quarantine in Australia but pragmatic solutions are found where difficult cases arise on humanitarian or compassionate grounds, an Irish doctor working in the country has said.

Public health specialist Dr Niall Conroy said that while the Australian regime was “strict”, it had worked to keep Covid-19 out.