08/06/2021Queensland Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates says a fully vaccinated young couple who were denied a hotel quarantine exemption to be with their new born baby is the latest act of "non-compassion" by the Palaszczuk government. "This is a young couple, this is their first child, a little baby who was born 10 weeks premature, the couple have been in hotel quarantine for 12 days already and they are fully vaccinated," she told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
"The baby was in utero, the parents have obviously tested negative so they are not a threat to their own child, in fact they should be with their own child - it is heartless." Ms Bates said this couple's case has Queenslanders concerned that despite having the "best reason in the world" for exemption from hotel quarantine, they are "not going to get it".
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Ros_Bates_MP This is horrendous. How could they not make it work!?
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