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Rydges quarantine hotel outbreak ‘inevitable’ | CQ News – CQ News
Security guards at Melbourne’s quarantine hotels cleaned toilets and communal areas such as lifts used by COVID-positive guests, the inquiry into the botched program has heard.
The hotel quarantine inquiry was on Tuesday told of a litany of failures, including the use of inadequate cleaning products, security guards being used to clean communal areas, 48-hour delays in cleaning the hotel after the outbreak, and a four-day delay in requiring all staff to isolate after the outbreak occurred.
It prompted counsel assisting the inquiry Ben Ihle to ask: “Given what we now know, it’s the case, isn’t it, that an outbreak from the Rydges Hotel was not only likely, it was almos…
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