COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Workers

In reply to the Hon. J.E. HANSON (17 February 2021).

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing): I have been advised:

The Emergency Management (Supervised Quarantine No 4) (COVID-19) Direction 2021, which includes the requirement for staff to have a PCR (nasal swab COVID-19 test) every eight days and daily onsite saliva testing, came into effect on 17 February 2021. Before this, voluntary saliva testing was available across all medi-hotel sites.

There have been no refusals since the direction came into effect.