'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 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".Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said the reputation of hard-working health professionals should not be unfairly maligned.But, he added, "I accept that this is a serious allegation, and it's something that needs to be followed up, and so we will retrace our steps ...
The state government closed two hospitals in Burnie on Monday after more than 40 hospital workers tested positive to COVID-19.Credit:The Australian Defence Force has been called in to set up a makeshift emergency department in Burnie, Tasmania and Australian Medical Assistance Teams personnel are on their way to assist, after about 1200 medical staff and their close household contacts were placed in isolation.
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