Australia police to charge woman with arson for COVID-19 quarantine hotel fire

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SYDNEY: Australian police said on Sunday (Nov 28) they expect to charge a 31-year-old woman with arson after she allegedly set fire to the COVID-19 quarantine hotel where she and her two children were staying. No one was injured in the fire, which gutted much of the 11th floor of the Pacific Hotel Cai

SYDNEY: Australian police said on Sunday they expect to charge a 31-year-old woman with arson after she allegedly set fire to the COVID-19 quarantine hotel where she and her two children were staying.

The incident in the northern city of Cairns occurred as tensions rose in parts of Australia as a result of coronavirus restrictions and the latest scare caused by the emergence of the Omicron variant, first identified in southern Africa.

 

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