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Can Victoria be trusted on quarantine?

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content It is hard to deny that the Victorian Government has failed in managing its hotel quarantine program. Victoria’s deadly second wave in mid-2020 was seeded when untrained private security guards leaked virus into the community, resulting in Melbourne being locked down for 16 consecutive weeks and around 800 deaths. Victoria has only today emerged from another 5-day hard lockdown after virus escaped from the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel earlier this month. Over the weekend it was revealed that Victoria’s hotel quarantine program was left out of the state’s key taskforce on infection control for frontline workers, leaving Australian Medical Association (AMA) president Julian Rait

Coronavirus Victoria: COVID-19 quarantine workers move between hotels, offices

Advertisement Workers and doctors in nine of Victoria’s quarantine hotels – including the Holiday Inn, from which a coronavirus outbreak leaked into the community – have been moving between multiple hotels and offices, in breach of the recommendations of an inquiry into the scheme’s failings. The Andrews government has repeatedly emphasised that employees in its hotel quarantine program would not work at other workplaces, and that doctors employed in the scheme would not work at more than one hotel. The Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport. Credit:Jason South The Coate inquiry into the state’s hotel quarantine program recommended in December that “every effort must be made to ensure that all personnel working at the facility are not working across multiple quarantine sites”.

Coronavirus Victoria: Melbourne Airport warns of significant work for quarantine facility

Advertisement A custom-built quarantine camp looks likely to be built near one of Melbourne’s airports, with Premier Daniel Andrews saying there was a “compelling argument” for the facility. Avalon Airport, operated by Linfox, owned by billionaire Lindsay Fox – a friend and occasional confidant of Mr Andrews – seems the more likely of the sites with a Melbourne Airport spokeswoman saying “significant work” would be needed to build a facility at Tullamarine. Daniel Andrews says Victoria will build a Howard-Springs-style facility. Credit:Penny Stephens Mr Andrews said on Tuesday the state government was considering options for a purpose-built accommodation hub outside the CBD to replace or to run in tandem with hotel quarantine.

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