Businesses affected by Victoria’s infamous second lockdown may need to wait another three years for their class action lawsuit to be heard in court if a bid by the Victorian State government is successful. This comes as a committal hearing is being heard in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to determine whether Victoria’s health department will…

New Zealand ex-pat Kurt Lehndorf, who resides in Australia, has won release from quarantine after enduring a 60-hour hunger strike to see his dying father. The saga with Lehndorf began five days ago when he arrived in New Zealand from Brisbane, Australia, where he was then placed under managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ). The man…

The UK government announced on Tuesday that hotel quarantine for travellers arriving in England will be abandoned. Under restrictions introduced to slow the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, all travellers arriving in the UK from the 11 African countries currently on the UK’s travel “red list” have been required to spend 11 nights in…

The company that provided security guards for hotel quarantine during Melbourne’s infamous second wave is preparing to refile a payment claim against the Victorian state government for $10.7 million. Unified Security Group, which was the principal contractor in both the Victorian and NSW hotel quarantine programs, alleged that the Victorian state government never paid its…

A law firm is taking the British government to court over its mandatory COVID-19 hotel quarantine policy, which it says constitutes a “fundamental breach” of human rights. PGMBM, a London-based law firm, said it will seek permission at the High Court for a judicial review of the government’s policy on hotel quarantine. At a two-hour…

Travellers to Australia’s most lockdown state will no longer need to undergo hotel quarantine once international travel resumes but will instead quarantine at home if they have been fully vaccinated. Speaking to Channel Seven’s Sunrise hosts on Oct. 18, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said while international travel was a matter for the federal government, Victorians…

New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet announced that quarantine will be scrapped entirely for the fully vaccinated from November, as the next stage of the roadmap begins next week with vaccine passports now available. All international travellers and returning citizens coming into NSW will no longer be required to quarantine from Nov. 1, provided…

A British law firm is seeking a second judicial review of the government’s hotel quarantine policy. The firm, PGMBM, said it believes that putting people who test negative for COVID-19 and have been vaccinated into managed hotel quarantine is “an ‘unlawful deprivation of liberty’ and violates fundamental human rights.” Under the UK’s traffic-light-style international travel system, only…

Police have revealed that they are taking action after a woman who travelled to Queensland from Sydney on July 1 broke out of hotel quarantine. Queensland Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the 32-year-old woman was found to be missing from her room at Cairns’ Pacific International Hotel on Monday. Police pieced together her escape…

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being allowed to check out from his quarantine hotel roughly 12 hours after checking in. Trudeau’s office says he received his negative COVID−19 test Wednesday morning and can now leave the three-star Ottawa lodging. Members of his delegation to Europe who landed in Ottawa around 7 p.m. were tested on…