Rydges hotel security guard delivered food after catching COVID-19
He said hospital staff told him to stay home until he got his results. He wasn't rostered on at Rydges, so, feeling a little better, he said he did three or four food deliveries.
He told the inquiry he was contacted by the department again and told that, because it had been 14 days since his first positive test, he was allowed to go out."As far as I know, nobody at the warehouse contracted COVID-19," he said in his statement. Unified Security ran security at the hotel, but the guard was subcontracted through SSG Security to work there in May.
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