Health
First link made between hotel quarantine outbreak and aged care – The Age
A security guard who shared a house with an aged care worker has been identified as the first formal link made between Victoria’s calamitous hotel quarantine program and the spread of coronavirus to an aged care home.
More than 550 elderly Victorians have died in the past nine weeks after contracting the virus in an aged care home.
Melbournes second wave of the virus began in May when private guards hired by the Andrews government to watch over returned travellers carried the disease into the community after working at two hotels, the Rydges on Swanston in Carlton and the Stamford Plaza in the CBD.
A report tendered last week to the inquiry investigating how the virus moved into the community found a case w…
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