Quarantine trial commences in SA

THE first trial program of homebased quarantine will begin in South Australia this week as part of an initiative agreed to with the Federal and SA state governments back in Jul (TD 12 Jul).

The trial will first offer people returning from NSW and Victoria the option of isolating at home instead of hotels, with facial recognition and geo-location technology to be deployed to monitor & enforce the program.

Travellers participating in the trial will be contacted by the South Australian Government at random and required to provide proof of their location within 15 minutes, with the goal of taking a less resource-intensive approach to quarantine enforcement.