This is not the Melbourne we’re used to. The CBD has turned into a ghost town due to a spike in coronavirus cases with several suburbs in lockdown. 📷: Ian Currie More:
Pressure is mounting on Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton over claims he was warned about the failures in Melbourne’s hotel quarantine system more than a month before the first outbreak was detected.
Professor Sutton and other top public health officials were told in April about inadequate supply of masks and gloves, poor infection-control protocols, and breaches of physical-distancing guidelines by hotel staff, security and medical personnel,Melissa Skilbeck, deputy secretary of Victoria’s Health Department, has subsequently been stripped of her responsibilities in the days after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a judicial inquiry into the quarantine program.
The failures have set off a chain of cases contributing to the lockdown of more than 300,000 Victorians across 10 Melbourne suburbs.
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