More revelations about Victoria's hotel quarantine program
A security firm that had only four full-time staff was subcontracted to work at most of Melbourne's quarantine hotels.
The details emerged as the Department of Health and Human Services released a report on genomic data which showed the coronavirus outbreak at the Rydges Hotel, associated with almost all the cases in Victoria's second wave of outbreaks, evolved into 10 further genomic clusters following a "super spreading event".The hotel contracting arrangements are a focus of the inquiry because of allegations guards were recruited over WhatsApp and were provided with no training on COVID-19.
Mr Aggarwal told the inquiry all guards were required to complete an online training module and Unified Security inducted guards at the start of their shifts.He said he was surprised to learn that the SSG guard gave evidence that he had delivered food and worked at a warehouse after contracting COVID-19.
United Risk Management said transmission may have occurred between staff car-pooling to work, working on the same floor or at shift change-over.
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