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Victorian health department gave meatworks permission to ask workers back before their coronavirus test results were in – ABC News
A change in the rules for industries that have suffered coronavirus outbreaks sees a Victorian meatworks given permission to ask staff back to work before they had the results from precautionary COVID-19 tests.
The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services decided to allow some staff at a meatworks to skip the ordinary self-isolation period after their COVID-19 test, so it could remain partially open despite several infections amongst staff.
Key points:
- In messages seen by the ABC, a worker at JBS Brooklyn was told to return to work after taking a COVID-19 test but before he received the result
- Victoria’s DHHS says workers at the plant who were not considered close contacts of…
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