Victoria's contact tracing system was 'not fit' to deal with rising COVID-19 cases

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'The use of manual data entry processes at the beginning of the pandemic meant that the system for contact tracing and recording of testing was not fit to deal with any escalation in cases.' 9News

The Legislative Council's Legal and Social Issues Committee today issued 47 findings and 19 recommendations in the

Poor technology and data entry has been blamed in part for the state's coronavirus response failures. "The use of manual data entry processes at the beginning of the pandemic meant that the system for contact tracing and recording of testing was not fit to deal with any escalation in cases and led to significant errors," one of the report findings read.

 

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