A group of returned travellers quarantining in an Adelaide medi-hotel have been moved to another facility amid concerns they may have been exposed to COVID-19.
A COVID-positive Victorian family which travelled to parts of southern NSW has a different coronavirus variant to other people associated with the current Greater Melbourne outbreak.
Eighteen returned travellers have been moved from Peppers Hotel to the Pullman Hotel in Adelaide amid concerns they may have been exposed to COVID-19 after toddler tested positive.
Stood down: Quarantine manager Matiu Bush. On Wednesday, it emerged Bush refused a Covid-19 test and failed to sanitise properly or use face masks
Victoria s hotel quarantine boss who was stood down for breaching infection protocols previously warned the healthcare sector not to become obsessed with risk .
Matiu Bush was stood down as Victoria s general manager of infection prevention and control on Wednesday after it emerged they refused a Covid-19 test and failed to sanitise or properly use face masks.
Bush, who uses they and them pronouns, was reported to authorities twice over the leaked breaches, The Australian reported.
Bush began working for Victoria s hotel quarantine program in June 2020 in the wake of the state s horror second wave of Covid-19 infections which killed 801 people.
Stood down: Quarantine manager Matiu Bush
A senior manager in Victoria s hotel quarantine program who was stood down for breaching protocols previously worked on designing a good death .
Matiu Bush - who prefers to be referred to as they or them instead of he or him - was stood down on Wednesday after it emerged they refused a Covid-19 test, and failed to hand stantise or properly use face masks.
Bush began working for Victoria s hotel quarantine program in June 2020 and became the General Manager of Infection Prevention and Control in October, following the state s horrific second wave which killed 801 people.