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Coronavirus LIVE updates: Ruby Princess inquiry finds ‘serious errors’; Victoria records 14 deaths, 372 new COVID-19 cases on Friday; New Zealand extends Auckland lockdown – The Age
Greater Melbourne remains in stage four lockdown while other parts of Australia continue to battle new clusters of COVID-19 as the pandemic rolls on.
Commissioner Bret Walker said in his report the decision to assess the ship as low risk meant, “in effect, ‘do nothing’,” and that it “is as inexplicable as it is unjustifiable”.
The report found the panel was “not helped by the drafting of the risk assessment form, which was not updated with the new ‘suspect case’ definition.
“This too was a serious error,” the report states.
The full panel should also have read the ship’s log of the illnesses on board and, having done so, they should have n…
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