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Australia May Review Quarantine Measures as More are Vaccinated

  • Government mulls allowing returning travelers home isolation
  • Risk tolerance will change over second half of year: official
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Australia may consider reducing its quarantine requirements and allowing returned travelers to isolate at home as more people receive the Covid-19 vaccine, according to Brendan Murphy, secretary of the Department of Health.

As vaccines are rolled out in Australia and around the world, the government will start to progressively review its border and quarantine measures, Murphy said.