Australian Prime Minister Rules Out Running Hotel Quarantine

Local officials (L) in protective gear help with baggage as Australian residents (R) arrive at a hotel in Adelaide for mandatory 14-day quarantine after returning from overseas on April 21, 2020. Brenton Edwards / AFP via Getty Images

Australia’s hotel quarantine won’t be run by the federal government, with the prime minister again rejecting the idea in the wake of renewed concerns about coronavirus spreading out of the system.

“We’re not going to be running it,” Scott Morrison told 3AW radio on Friday. “Hotel quarantine is never 100 per cent fail-safe. To suggest it ever will be is just not realistic.”