Victoria’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis has been thrown into question again after it was revealed people in quarantine were mistakenly told they could leave.
Text messages were sent to recipients being monitored digitally while in quarantine over the weekend.on Wednesday. She was told to isolate but a text message advised her she was free to leave her home.
“Straight away I thought, this is a mistake, something has gone wrong here,” she said of receiving the message. Several cases have since been linked to outbreaks at both the Rydges Hotel and the Stamford Plaza Hotel.
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