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Lawyers suing security companies that worked in Victoria’s bungled hotel quarantine program need to work out which hotel the COVID-19 strain that killed their client’s father came from before the class action can proceed.
Law firm Arnold Thomas & Becker is pursuing Unified Security Group and MSS Security on behalf of lead plaintiff Dragan Markovic, whose father contracted COVID-19 in a nursing home and died at the end of August in hospital.
The last photo of Dragan Markovic with his father Nenad Markovic before the elderly man s death from COVID-19.
He was among the 800 people who died in Victoria’s second wave, with 99.8 per cent of cases traced to outbreaks in the quarantine program at two of the hotels: the Rydges on Swanston and the Stamford Plaza.
A Victorian man intends to sue the State Government after being
detained in quarantine.
John-Lee Berridge says Victorian health authorities made a
mistake about quarantine and he should not have been detained when
Victoria suddenly shut the border to New South Wales on 1 January
2020, forcing thousands of travelling Victorians to head home or
face mandatory quarantine.
62,000 people were stuck in queues at checkpoints scrambling to
make the deadline on New Year s Day, and more than 2,000
Victorians remain stranded in New South Wales still, with Victoria
showing no signs of reopening it s border any time soon.
Mr Berridge contends that he flew into Avalon Airport at 7pm,