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Victoria’s hotel quarantine program left out of key taskforce on infection control for frontline workers
Experts are “gobsmacked” to learn the hotel quarantine program was left out of Victoria’s key taskforce on infection control for frontline health workers and the policies were not applied to the embattled system.
Key points:
- Members of the healthcare taskforce told the ABC information about worker infections was not shared with COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV)
- The AMA’s Julian Rait said that was inexcusable
- Premier Daniel Andrews said CQV had its own infection control taskforce to do that work
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has also declared Victoria “cannot be trusted” to manage hotel quarantine until it is fully restructured after Victoria was this week forced into a third lockdown due to a cluster at the Holiday Inn hotel…
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