Albury man who sparked state lockdown apologises but denies he "escaped" from quarantine

Updated October 21 2021 - 11:09am, first published 11:02am
REPORT: Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein says a probe into an Albury man's quarantine breach is under way.
REPORT: Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein says a probe into an Albury man's quarantine breach is under way.

Police in Tasmania are investigating claims by a coronavirus-infected man from Albury on the border of Victoria and NSW, whose hotel quarantine breach sparked a lockdown, that he "walked out the door".

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