Sutton warned of hotel quarantine risks a month before first outbreak

Victoria recorded 66 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday as outbreaks that began in the state's hotel quarantine system spread in the northern and western suburbs, where more than 300,000 residents are subject to renewed stage three lockdown rules.

The offices of Professor Sutton and Mr Andrews refused to answer questions about the April briefing. Both cited a judicial inquiry as the reason they could not discuss whether their offices were told of emerging problems. Ms Mikakos' office asked that questions be directed to the Premier's office. Opposition health spokeswoman Georgie Crozier said Ms Mikakos should resign over the handling of the hotel clusters and an earlier Cedar Meats outbreak.

Lax hygiene at Rydges on Swanston in Carlton has been blamed for infections among security staff and their contacts.The Health Department instituted a review of hotel protocols in early June after poor hygiene practices, first reported byMore than 20 Rydges on Swanston staff and their close contacts have been infected in the outbreak since it was identified on May 27. The Stamford outbreak started on June 17 and has grown to 35 cases.

The Age, dying a sad slow death in the age of social media. Now resorting to News Corpse style click bait journalism to stay afloat. What happened to this great newspaper? 20 years ago this paper had respect in Melbourne. Now, it’s in the gutter.

Completely irresponsible-this doesn’t even resemble journalism.

So has the Andrews government sacked the security companies If not then that’s the real scandal! Knowing about the situation but not doing a damn thing about it - all security companies in the quarantine hotels should immediately be sacked

jnbond sandersonsledge . Anyone who has ever stood in line, or been booted out of a nightclub would know using private security is not going to end well.

People should be responsible for their own action. Message to the Age stop instigating blame game division and hate. We should be united now not divided.

Of course ... this can’t happen with leadership and oversight. I’m sick of the impact this incompetence is having on all Victorians and Australians

Blind Freddy could have told you it was a circus- all you had to do was walk down Little Collins Street past The Stamford there were c***$ everywhere... looks very different today

Scraping the bottom of the barrel with this type of journalism. Your “source” sounds like a bitter public servant with an axe to grind & who is probably covering their own arse. Waging a vendetta against Brett Sutton for public service stuff ups is irresponsible & wrong.

What? Insane. If he knew? Culpable.

Its spreading like crazy due to the incompetence of DanielAndrewsMP JennyMikakos sooner state goes back into lockdown and these 2 step aside we can start to contain the spread

The Age has embraced gotcha journalism. You are chasing human errors made under extreme pressure. If only your reporters and editors could perform to the level of perfection that you are demanding of others. Communication is the single task you have and you are failing miserably

Thanks Costello for the continued Labor bashing. If only you were this concerned about NSW Libs & Dutton letting infected RubyPrincess passengers roam the country unchecked, bringing the wave to Vic in the first place. FactCheck auspol springst covid19aus LNPcorruption

Seems to me the errors were with those contracted - hotel / security etc - common sense should have prevailed! And why were Cedar Meats people in the hotels ?

Daniel Andrews and team have failed miserably, slow to act but quick to lay the blame on others. Lazy bunch they are!

springst the Liberal Party will not let matters rest until the wrongdoers are identified and punished.

Cowardly journalism: ‘The Age is not suggesting...’ The Age has a responsibility to identify those responsible for this outrageous failure. Whomever they may be.

Using private companies in the prime of start of a pandemic is flawed in basic concept. Then to ignore extreme supervision was unexplainable. It was easily foreseen that untrained migrant private guards would mix with incoming similar communities

Don’t forget the captaincookgirl this smells of cover up

DictatorDan CedarAndrews

Here we go, the blame game. problems need to be solved and solved quick!!!

Very poor form So sad to see that you've resorted to this style of journalism. So easy to throw things at those in the hot seat, particularly with the support of 'anonymous sources' who quite probably have their own agendas.

The cover-up is always worse hotelgate

Buck stops with the Minister and Dan Andrews not Sutton !

The Inquiry is a distraction, to stop journalists asking questions and shift blame from the Govt. COVID19Vic

May 2020: Vic CHO has other concerns... 'More broadly, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services is undertaking comprehensive climate change planning and is currently preparing a climate change strategy...'

The hypocrisy of the right wing nutter trolls is astounding. Let’s get through this fellow Victorians, because all these Liberal Party supporters & their Age journo buddies care about is taking down Labor whatever the costs, even if endangers our lives.

It’s a bad dream Hope to wake up soon

This bloke must have been working night and day for months. To attack a public servant without full context is very poor form.

As we thought another cover! Incompetent clowns

It’s not his job to deal with administrivia, back off or I’m canceling my subs.Don’t play dangerous journalism when we already have 10,000 covidiots looking for excuses not to test. How about exposing anti-public-health dangerous morons who believe it’s all a conspiracy.

...there are always multiple scenarios, how can you act on all of them?

I really like Professor Sutton, he’s gone a great job. But he’s been let down by poor governance. It’s looking ever more likely that the inquiry is a political stunt to defer the hard questions.

Classic headline with disclaimer neatly folded in below....headline infers failure but disclaimer gives the Age an out...But does not address whether he did act...which would be the real story...just change your name to the Ch9 Newspaper...Noel Towell there again, no surprise....

TheAge also fundraises for the LNP in order to help them fund election campaigns. It would appear TheAge help the LNP wherever they can. auspol

Maybe get all the facts before you peddle in dribble

Yes it is. 😂

This guy is a dud. Went too hard with lockdown- destroyed livelihoods. Now when true Lockdown is needed they know it’s too hard as there is lockdown fatigue and damage to the economy has been done.

Then why didn’t this happen at other hotels like crown It’s not just the government it’s the security firms and hotels not following up on practices and more than likely taking advantage of a government funded incentive

We're back in lockdown to contain their image 😡

HIT JOB ON SUTTON. Instead of stopping the second wave in Victoria, senior government figures have orchestrated a mafia like hit on VictorianCHO - payback for earlier comments. It is more proof that DanielAndrewsMP has lost control of the virus.

Sutton advised there would be student to student transmission with re-opening the schools. Now they are trying to discredit him by laying blame for hotel fiasco...

I watched the movie Sully last night. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Much harder to be the person in the hot seat, making multiple, complex, often life and death decisions, in the moment, with no margin for error. Being a public servant so often a thankless task.

In one damn thread you’ve got idiots claiming this same article burns Andrews and supports him, wtf are you all smoking here?!

Melissa Skilbeck stripped of responsibility but still keeps her $350000 per year salary - nice work if you can get it 🤷🏼‍♀️😱😡

If this kind of reporting continues, it’s good-bye to the ‘Age’ for me. That will be hard because the paper has been part of my life but the standards have slipped close to the edge.

He’s in real trouble. But so is his minister JennyMikakos & DanielAndrewsMP - all appear to have not been fully candid when asked question on Quarantine over the recent period. COVID19 springst

Victorians are now basically leper’s because of a breakdown in oversight of a program that was meant to protect us. Everyone in the shamed postcodes followed the rules until someone didn’t follow them within the Governments own program.

Anonymous sources. You really have become the equivalent of a crap English tabloid.

So show your evidence. Why would anyone believe a newspaper, unless you are a rusted on LNP voter, when you are trying to destroy Andrews and the Government.

The Age trying to protect corrupt DanielAndrewsMP Need a fall guy do we?

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