Hotel quarantine causes 1 outbreak for every 204 infected travellers. It's far from ‘fit for purpose’

By Driss Ait Ouakrim, Research Fellow, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Ameera Katar, Data Analyst and Research Coordinator, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
Tony Blakely, Professor of Epidemiology, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne

The government says hotel quarantine is 'serving Australia very well'. But if you look at the leaks as a proportion of COVID-positive returnees, it's a different story.

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