Victoria’s COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry has delivered its final report. Here are the key findings

Victoria’s COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry, led by former judge Jennifer Coate, has released its final report.

The probe was set up after more than 90 per cent of the coronavirus infections in the state’s deadly second wave were linked to infection control breaches in hotel quarantine.

The inquiry held public hearings over 27 days, took evidence from 96 witnesses and received more than 350,000 pages of documents.

Here are its key findings.

Who was in charge?

Ms Coate found a meeting at the State Control Centre (SCC) on March 28 made clear that the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was in charge as the control agency of the program, and that the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) was a support agency.

But she found…