Victoria recorded one new locally acquired case of coronavirus on Monday
Premier Daniel Andrews and ABC host Leigh Sales engaged in fiery exchange
Ms Sales grilled Mr Andrews over need for a snap statewide five-day lockdown Are you going into. lockdown every time you have two or three new cases?
Mr Andrews refused to say whether the lockdown will end on Wednesday
Experts in Australia are gobsmacked to learn the hotel quarantine programme 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.
The Grand Hyatt hotel in Melbourne is one of the city s hotels being used for quarantine.
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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 quarantine site at Melbourne Airport.
Last year, the Healthcare Worker Infection Prevention and Wellbeing taskforce was set up to tackle the issue of frontline workers catching Covid-19.
Victoria Virus Case Friend of Hotel Quarantine Worker
MELBOURNE, Australia Victoria has recorded one new local case of COVID-19, while Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says there is no plan, yet, to extend the five-day lockdown.
The latest COVID-19 case in Victoria is a friend of a hotel quarantine worker, as contact tracers race to ring-fence an outbreak of the infectious UK strain.
There are now 14 cases linked to the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport as the entire state undergoes a five-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown.
The single additional positive case recorded on Saturday is a man in his 30s in Point Cook in Melbourne’s west, who is a friend of a Holiday Inn worker.