Goulish Australian Officials Send 6-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsey Into COVID Prison After He Returns From Brain Surgery In The US

There is growing outrage with Queensland Health's tough quarantine measures after a six-year-old boy with cerebral palsy was denied an exemption to quarantine at home.

Lenny Silveira and his father Fabio are holed up in a Sydney hotel room after the young boy underwent major surgery for his condition in the US.

Because their flight back to Australia had to stop in Sydney, the Queensland Government has refused their plea to participate in the home quarantine trial due to the risk of bringing coronavirus in from NSW.

"It hasn't been an easy journey," a frustrated Fabio told Today.

"It is a long story but basically Lenny has cerebral palsy and he needed this surgery that is not available for him in Australia.

"So that meant us going in the middle of the pandemic to America, in the middle of all the uncertainty of returning flights.