“Australia's hotel quarantine system has a 99.9 per cent success rate.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Morrison's claim is spin. Experts contacted by Fact Check took issue with his measure of the "success" of hotel quarantine. However, there were differing opinions on which numbers should be used to measure success. Some experts were of the opinion that the full impact on the community of the breaches should be considered when assessing success. Others suggested more complex calculations which factor in hotel quarantine leaks that have not been discovered by testing or contact tracing. Furt...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Scott Morrison (Prime Minister) made this claim around 5 June 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 15 July 2021, 40 days later. Its rating was “Spin”.
Scott Morrison has 18 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 3 true.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by RMIT ABC Fact Check, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.