The Minister for Health has created a form of widespread civil detention which is unprecedented in this country and is not being operated in accordance with the consitution, lawyers for a woman challenging her detention in hotel quarantine have told the High Court.
They said the law had inadvertently created detention but the protections that ought to be there under the constitution were not in place.
52-year-old Charlotte Heyns from South Africa has previously had Covid-19 and has also had one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
She lives here but flew back to South Africa for medical assessment as she developed cardiac issues after recovering from the virus.