Andrews apologises over hotel quarantine failures as report slams lack of accountability

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has said he is sorry for the 'clear errors' in the state's bungled hotel quarantine program. 9News

Mr Andrews said he was sorry for the mistakes made.

"If I had my time again, then that meeting at the state control centre, that state control team meeting that Judge Coate refers to quite clearly, I would prefer that police had been chosen to do that work," Mr Andrews said. The final report into the program was unable to determine who made the decision to hire private security, which caused the second wave in Victoria after private security infected with COVID-19 spread it in the community.

"Consideration was not given to the appropriateness or implications of using a largely casualised workforce in an environment where staff had a high likelihood of being exposed to the highly infectious COVID-19," she wrote.

 

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