Medical staff went to an 'illegal' dinner party before hospital coronavirus outbreak
Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein says Australia's Chief Medical Officer was commenting on a"rumour" when he linked an"illegal" dinner party to a major coronavirus outbreak in two of the state's hospitals.
"We thought we were doing really well in the last week and then 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 said. "However, I accept that this is a serious allegation and it's something that needs to be followed up.
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