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Victorian CHO role needs to be more clearly defined during next health crisis, parliamentary inquiry finds
The Victorian Government should ensure there are clearer lines of responsibility during the next pandemic and commission modelling on the broader health and mental health impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns, a parliamentary committee has found.
Key points:
- Without lockdowns there would have been 20,000 COVID-19 cases each day, the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee found
- The Government must spell out the roles and responsibilities of officials like the Chief Health Officer, it said
- The report also recommended the health department improve a key benchmark for contact tracing
But the committee also concluded that without any lockdowns during the second wave, there would have been 20,000 new cases of coronavirus every day, with more than 8,000…
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