Flights Into Victoria Barred as Hotel Outbreaks Probed

Flights Into Victoria Barred as Hotel Outbreaks Probed
A charter flight from Uruguay lands at Melbourne Airport on April 12, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
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International flights into Victoria have been diverted for two weeks as a former judge begins an inquiry into the state’s hotel quarantine program.

Since early in the pandemic, thousands of returned overseas travellers have spent a fortnight quarantined in hotel rooms as part of efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus.