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Chief health officer saw ‘considerable risk’ to health and safety from hotel quarantine – Brisbane Times
Victoria’s hotel quarantine inquiry has also heard that at least one returned traveller left hotel quarantine in Melbourne while infected with COVID-19 and passed it on to the person who drove them home.
“Are you trying to blame others?” Mr Moses asked.
“I’m not trying to blame anybody,” she replied. “I don’t believe that any one individual is responsible for what occurred.”
In earlier evidence, Dr van Diemen had agreed with her former boss, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton that the quarantine in Melbourne was run more as a logistics or compliance exercise, rather than a health program, though she had only come to that opinion in retrospect.
About 99 per cent of Melbourne’s devastating secon…
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