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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
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Workers and doctors in nine of Victoriaâs quarantine hotels â including the Holiday Inn, from which a coronavirus outbreak leaked into the community â have been moving between multiple hotels and offices, in breach of the recommendations of an inquiry into the schemeâs 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 stateâs hotel quarantine program recommended in December that âevery effort must be made to ensure that all personnel working at the facility are not working across multiple quarantine sitesâ.
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A custom-built quarantine camp looks likely to be built near one of Melbourneâs airports, with Premier Daniel Andrews saying there was a âcompelling argumentâ for the facility.
Avalon Airport, operated by Linfox, owned by billionaire Lindsay Fox â a friend and occasional confidant of Mr Andrews â seems the more likely of the sites with a Melbourne Airport spokeswoman saying âsignificant workâ 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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