Did the CPD cruise doctors really ignore police orders to self-isolate?
They have been publicly slammed by authorities and even the Prime Minister, but the doctors say they followed police advice to return home
More than 30 doctors accused of flouting quarantine rules after returning from a CPD cruise without self-isolating in a hotel were following police advice to return home, says one of their colleagues.
The doctors had originally been stranded off the coast of Chile on a ship for almost a month, before they finally arrived back in Sydney on Friday night.
There had been no reported cases of COVID-19 on the cruise and it was 24 hours before new quarantine rules came into effect, forcing all new arrivals to immediately self-isolate at a hotel.
About 70 doctors from the cruise were put up in the Rydges hotel near the airport.
