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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.