Kerry Stokes and wife Christine excused from hotel quarantine
Billionaire Kerry Stokes and his wife, Christine, were excused on medical grounds from two weeks of forced quarantine in a Perth hotel.
Billionaire Kerry Stokes and his wife, Christine, were excused on medical grounds from two weeks of forced quarantine in a Perth hotel room when they flew in from the US recently, the couple’s spokesman says.
While West Australians returning from overseas and interstate must wait out 14 days of coronavirus quarantine in one of three city hotels, Mr and Mrs Stokes were able to go directly to their home in the riverside suburb of Dalkeith to self isolate.
People in hotel quarantine have complained repeatedly that they cannot get alcohol, that their windows do not open and that they are not allowed outside their rooms for even short periods of exercise.
A 35-year-old man is in jail for sneaking out of hotel quarantine to see his girlfriend and another man with PTSD was filmed rolling on the floor crying and begging to be let out. Others report that medics pace the halls giving out sedatives.
The Stokes landed in their hometown of Perth on April 8 on a private plane from the US. They had reportedly been locked down in a house they own in Colorado.
“Mr Stokes and his wife received an exemption because Mr Stokes recently underwent a medical procedure,” a spokesman for the mogul said.
“The exemption also applied to Mr Stokes’ wife, who accompanied him, and they have been in isolation for two weeks at their home in Perth.
“Mr and Mrs Stokes strictly followed all the required protocols during that time, as did the air crew.
“Many thousands of Australians have also received exemptions over the last month.”
A spokeswoman for WA Health told The Australian the department provided advice to WA Police on the Stokes’ request for an exemption.
Under WA’s state of emergency laws, police decide whether a person can be exempted from two weeks in hotel quarantine.
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