LATEST: COVID isolation rules SCRAPPED by National Cabinet

COVID-positive Australians will no longer have to isolate at home by law.

National Cabinet agreed on Friday to scrap the mandatory isolation period for people with coronavirus from October 14.

“It won’t make a lot of difference, because there is a lot of asymptomatic spread out there, anyway,” Professor Peter Collignon told Neil Mitchell.

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COVID-positive health care workers won’t be able to return to work until clear of the virus, but the mandate will be removed for everybody else.

It brings Australia in-line with much of the rest of the world.