A total of 90 hotel rooms across Tasmania are housing quarantined travellers.
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Any non-essential travellers who arrived in the state after midnight on Sunday are required to quarantine for 14 days in hotels being operated by the government.
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The cost of this quarantine is being covered by the state.
In the North, Peppers Seaport Hotel, the Best Western, Country Club Villas and the Tamar Valley Resort at Grindelwald will house quarantined arrivals.
In the North-West, the Edgewater Hotel, the Gateway Inn and the Barclay Motor Inn in Devonport and the Burnie Ocean View Motel at Ocean Vista will be used.
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The Travelodge Hobart Airport, Travelodge Hobart and Wrest Point will be utilised in the South.
Premier Peter Gutwein said for the 90 rooms there could be more than one person in each room.
"We have over 700 room capacity," Mr Gutwein said.
Further detail on how many quarantined travellers are being housed in each region will be provided by the Premier on Wednesday.
Emily Jarvie
Emily Jarvie is a political journalist at The Advocate and The Examiner newspapers based in Hobart, Tasmania. Contact: emily.jarvie@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Emily Jarvie is a political journalist at The Advocate and The Examiner newspapers based in Hobart, Tasmania. Contact: emily.jarvie@austcommunitymedia.com.au
