Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton tells the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry his public health team provided advice and directions on infection control measures in hotel quarantine, but was not responsible for overseeing compliance.
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton was not responsible for overseeing compliance within the state's hotel quarantine program, an inquiry into the ill-fated scheme has heard.
But he said once the advice was provided to the massive bureaucratic task force, which he referred to as a "large beast", his team was unaware about whether the directions were actually being followed."Is it fair to say that [your team] doesn't have oversight of how they're [health directions] being proliferated and complied with?" Mr Ihle asked.For the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic read our live blog.
Professor Sutton said he did not consider them, explaining that the rules usually applied to certain individuals for diseases like hepatitis."There haven't been cases … where they felt such coercive powers would be beneficial to them," he said.Professor Sutton conceded testing at the hotels could have been strengthened, given it was never made mandatory.
"If you want to make [hotel quarantine] robust as possible, making more stringent requirements for testing is a reasonable consideration," he said.
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