Major COVID-19 lockdown class action to go ahead in Victoria

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A class action against the Victorian government will go ahead over the failures that led to the second 2020 lockdown, which devastated businesses and resulted in widespread job losses. springst lockdown COVID19Vic

, and had a duty to take reasonable care to ensure that effective infection prevention and control measures were implemented in hotel quarantine, but failed to do so.

“If the hotel quarantine program had been handled competently by the people in charge, there would not have been a second lockdown.” “Nothing will give business owners back the sleepless nights, but the negligence can and should be addressed, and business owners ought to be compensated,” Scattini said. “That’s what this class action is about, and we welcome the court’s decision, which allows it to go forward.”

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