A national review has suggested that smartphone apps and wearable surveillance devices including ankle bracelets are among options that could allow returning travellers to quarantine at home rather than in a hotel. Since March, Hong Kong has been allowing travellers to home quarantine using a wrist bracelet that you scan into a phone app and it has been working effectively.

 

On today's episode we explore how these monitoring devices could work, and how they’d be received by Australian travellers. Dr Marietta Martinovic is a Criminologist from RMIT has done a PhD on electronic monitoring and explains more about this technology. 

 

In today's headlines:

• UK to get Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine next week
• Australia is officially out of recession
• Chinese social media app WeChat censors Scott Morrison
• Singapore approves sale of world-first lab-made chicken nuggets

 

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