National cabinet ends Covid-19 mandatory isolation orders and payments – video

The mandatory Covid isolation requirement will be scrapped following the latest meeting of national cabinet, with exemptions for those working in high-risk settings such as health or aged care.

Prime minister Anthony Albanese announced on Friday that disaster payments for workers diagnosed with Covid would also end, with the same exemptions for high-risk workplaces.

‘The nature of emergency measures is that they’re not there with no end date,’ Albanese said 

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