A TRIP to Queensland has landed one Bendigo family in quarantine, in their White Hills home.
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Tegan Hearps, along with her partner and three children, have been confined since their return from the Gold Coast on Wednesday.
The area was designated a COVID-19 red zone at 1am that same day, meaning Miss Hearps and her family must self-isolate for 14 days and test for the virus.
The quarantine means her children - aged 12, nine and seven - will miss their first few days of term three.
Miss Hearps said she knew of at least one other family in a similar situation.
Miss Hearps said quarantine hadn't been too bad so far, but the family was only up to day three.
She said it was mainly the inconvenience of being unable to run to the supermarket, or go for a walk, which was getting to them.
Family and friends had dropped off food and care packages, Miss Hearps said.
Miss Hearps and her family had left for a two week holiday on June 16, planned for years to celebrate Miss Hearps' eldest son's recovery from leukemia.
They were booked to return on Wednesday June 30, but on Monday afternoon - June 28 - a friend texted Miss Hearps about a COVID-19 case in Queensland.
She called to see if she could change the family's flights, but gave up after spending two hours on hold.
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On Tuesday after the Queensland government announced a lockdown she tried to change the flights again, but they were all booked out.
It meant the family left on Wednesday as planned, less than 12 hours after the Gold Coast became a red zone.
Miss Hearps said the airport in Queensland was full of people trying to leave when the family flew out.
She asked an official when entering Victoria if the family would be able to leave quarantine when Queensland exited its lockdown, but was told no.
"At the end of the day, you just have to tell yourself it's 14 days, and that's what it is, isn't it," Miss Hearps said.
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