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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-05-04" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Workers</name>
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          <heading>COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Workers</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5244" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.E. HANSON</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-05-04">
            <name>COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Workers</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5244">the Hon. J.E. HANSON </by>(17 February 2021).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2021-05-04">
            <name>COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Workers</name>
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        <text id="2021050420d89d66484c4578b0000842">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>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. </inserted>
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          <inserted>There have been no refusals since the direction came into effect.</inserted>
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