'You can’t even tell people that live in housing commissions to social distance – some families have nine or 10 people living in a bedroom. How can you tell them to social distance?'
Residents of the Flemington towers have vented their frustration with the Andrews government over their five-day hard lockdown, saying that risks were foreseeable in the densely populated towers but they were not adequately serviced by health authorities.
"You can’t even tell people that live in housing commissions to social distance – some families have nine or 10 people living in a bedroom. How can you tell them to social distance?""I think the government should have had a specific policy to deal with the high rises. It was a very obvious risk.""The overwhelming majority of the community don’t have jobs that mean they can work from home. They drive taxis, Ubers, and work in factories.
"However, overcrowded living conditions assist the virus to spread. We believe that if Victoria had more public housing, this would be less of an issue". "A daily sanitisation of all the directly affected floors at both estates has been put into place, and onsite testing began on Friday," they said.
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