Australia’s Quarantine Review Recommends Monitoring Devices for Travellers

Australia’s Quarantine Review Recommends Monitoring Devices for Travellers
Government Technology Agency (GovTech) staff demonstrate Singapore's new contact-tracing smarthphone app called TraceTogether, as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Singapore on March 20, 2020. Catherine Lai/AFP via Getty Images
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Australian federal and state government leaders are considering the use of electronic location monitoring devices to track low-risk cohorts of returned overseas travellers, so that they can quarantine at home instead of at hotels.

The proposal was put forward by Jane Halton, who led the national review of Australia’s hotel quarantine programs in all states and territories except Victoria, where the program failed.

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