In a devastating blow for Daniel Andrews, it has been found that the hotel quarantine program was “responsible for the deaths of 768 people”. COVID19
In closing submissions to the inquiry, counsel assisting the inquiry Ben Ihle said the failure to properly train security guards, inadequate testing of detainees and poor infection control measures meant that the program became “a feeding ground for the spread ofHe argued the inquiry could “comfortably find that the hotel quarantine program in Victoria failed to achieve its primary objective” which was to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The inquiry was told the failure to monitor the scheme and train private security guards on infection control allowed the virus to escape the “hot hotels.”“The program should have been accompanied by intensive and ongoing monitoring and auditing..the Victorian Government failed to ensure this was done.”
The family was sent to the “hot” hotel in Carlton for COVID patients in mid May after they tested positive. About 90 per cent of the 18,000 infections can be traced back to the family of four who quarantined at the Rydges hotel. After the national cabinet and the Prime Minister Scott Morrison decided to introduce a system of mandatory quarantine on Friday, March 27, the states had less than 48 hours to get the scheme up and running.
The inquiry was also told Victoria Police did not want to run the state’s hotel quarantine scheme and “their preference became the outcome” that resulted in the disastrous decision to use poorly trained security guards an inquiry has been told. “The expression of a preference can readily be understood to have given the clear impression that police weren’t going to do it and there needed to be an alternative,” Ms Ellyard said.
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