A 29 year-old-Victorian man has been hospitalised after falling from a hotel balcony in an attempt to evade quarantine.
After arriving from Victoria on Friday morning, the man has been quarantining at the Pacific Hotel in Cairns.
Police say the man attempted to escape quarantine by scaling the building which eventually leading him to fall.
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