Tasmania's business leaders are calling on the state government to ditch close contact requirements, following the trail blazed by NSW and Victoria this week.
The Tasmanian Small Business Council (TSBC) claim the current isolation rules for close contacts are interfering with the state's economic recovery, requesting the rules be tossed away or eased.
"It is clear that with the bulk of the community vaccinated, falling rates of hospitalisation and the plateauing of COVID cases, that the close contact rules should be scrapped," TSBC chief executive officer Robert Mallett said.