Footage has emerged of Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy accusing a group of health workers linked to a COVID-19 outbreak of going to an 'illegal dinner party'
"We thought we were doing really well in the last week and we had a cluster of 49 cases in a hospital in Tasmania just over the weekend, most of them went to an illegal dinner party of medical workers ... we think," he is heard saying in the footage.Mr Gutwein said that "at this stage" health authorities' contact tracing of the outbreak "has not identified a dinner party of health workers".
"We need to understand whether or not there is any strength to the rumour because, at the end of the day, I am certain that there are many hard-working health professionals on the north-west coast who feel that their reputations are being maligned; people that have done the right thing." Mr Gutwein had on Monday rejected social media "rumours" about the source of the hospital outbreak, saying authorities were still working to determine the chain of transmission.
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