Australia’s hotel quarantine won’t be run by the federal government, with the prime minister again rejecting the idea in the wake of renewed concerns about coronavirus spreading out of the system. “We’re not going to be running it,” Scott Morrison told 3AW radio on Friday. “Hotel quarantine is never 100 per cent fail-safe. To suggest it ever will be is just not realistic.” International arrivals have to complete 14 days in hotel quarantine in order to protect the community from coronavirus, with breaches of the system Australia’s greatest risk of the disease spreading. The entire state of Victoria will begin a strict five-day lockdown from Saturday in a bid to stop an outbreak of the highly infectious UK variant growing. The cluster is linked to the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport and consists of 13 cases as of Friday, with a total of 19 infections in the state. Victorian Premier Dan …
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