This mess certainly gives weight to the Ministry of Health's decision to end compassionate leave from quarantine for funerals under level 1. (Compassionate leave to visit sick relatives remains, which is how this case happened.) But the ministry does not come out looking rosy: Why on earth were these two allowed to leave the managed isolation without a test? If we can't trust our own managed quarantine can we trust Australia's? What if these two had been granted compassionate leave to visit a Pacific island where the healthcare system is utterly unprepared for Covid-19?

Source: Stuff June 16, 2020 05:03 UTC