Get our daily coronavirus email newsletter with all the news you need to know direct to your inbox Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA man was caught escaping hotel quarantine by tying his bedsheets to form a rope which he then used to climb out of his fourth-floor window, police have said. The escapee, who on an interstate flight from Brisbane, was told to leave the state within 48 hours and taken to a hotel for temporary quarantine. Police arrested the man across town about eight hours later, and charged him with failing to comply with a direction and providing "false/misleading information". Australia has recorded far fewer coronavirus cases and deaths than many other developed countries partly because it closed national and internal borders and imposed mandatory hotel quarantine for anyone arriving from abroad or - during outbreaks- another state.

Source: Daily Mirror July 21, 2021 16:38 UTC