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A returned traveller blamed for spreading coronavirus through the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel by using a nebuliser is pushing for an independent review of his case because he does not trust the state government to investigate itself.
It comes as debate rages among scientists over whether a nebuliser really was the source of the outbreak, as the state government has suggested.
The man, who has chronic asthma, previously told
The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald he was twice given permission by Victorian health authorities to use the medical device, which turns liquid medications into a fine mist that can be inhaled, while in quarantine.
The device, which evaporates medication or liquid into a fine mist, likely sparked the Covid outbreak at Melbourne Airport s Holiday Inn quarantine hotel.
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