For months MB has been calling for the quarantining of international arrivals to be moved out of densely packed inner-city hotels to sparsely packed accommodation in the regions.
The reasons are obvious: packing dozens of travellers into hotels with shared ventilation and enclosed corridors risks spreading the virus among guests, workers and into the broader community. These risks are made worse by quarantine workers mingling among the community and their households after they finish their shifts.
Put simply, there are too many possible vectors of transmission arising from hotel quarantine.
