Panama Dining Room owner Luke Stepsys says the Victorian Government's failure to heed calls for a centralised QR code check-in system has resulted in the state enduring its “most crippling lockdown” yet.
Businesses must ensure visitors check-in upon arrival through the Services Victoria QR code app or risk facing fines worth up to $1,652.
“This will be a lockdown that delivers a knockout blow to plenty of businesses,” he said.
“Community leaders months ago were imploring the government to listen to business owners, develop one system and just make it easy for us all.
“The Government created the problem … if there was an outbreak, it would be very difficult for contact tracers to be able to align all of these different QR code systems and extract data in real time.
“You look at the situation where they listed the wrong supermarket as an exposure site and they just lied their way out of it, into lockdown.”
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