A coronavirus-positive woman has been accused of walking out of a quarantine hotel and jumping on a Melbourne tram just seven hours after checking in.
It’s been described by staff as a major infection control breach, with The Australian reporting the woman – a voluntary isolation guest at the Brady Hotel – was not stopped by police or Department of Health and Human Services officials.
It comes as a war of words escalated between the Victorian and federal governments over whether Australian Defence Force personnel were on offer at the start of the state’s hotel quarantine program in March.
The woman, who had suffered a recent assault, was reportedly mentally disturbed, agitated and hostile towards staff during her time at the Brady Hotel, The Australian said.
The paper reported police refused a request from nurses to help calm the woman and monitor for roaming behaviour, and the DHHS also refused a request to provide security.
It resulted in nurses having to monitor the hotel floor in pairs before the woman left the hotel without personal protective equipment and boarded a tram.
The incident reportedly unfolded on Sunday, July 19 after the woman checked in at 4pm.
Victoria Police told The Australian that as the woman was in voluntary isolation, there was no breach of the chief health officer’s directions.
The Brady and Grand Chancellor hotels have been housing up to 200 COVID-19 positive guests after the international returned traveller quarantine program was suspended until at least October 24 after major flaws were revealed.
The international quarantine program is the subject of an inquiry and has since been blamed for the second wave of virus infections within Victoria.
Premier Daniel Andrews has publicly taken personal responsibility for the hotel quarantine bungle.
But he said it was unclear to him where some of the decisions relating to the quarantine program originated from, and the inquiry had been set up to “get us the answers”.
The inquiry’s reporting deadline has now been delayed until November due to Melbourne’s stage four lockdown, but evidence presented on the first day of hearings on July 20 suggested the possibility of a link between many coronavirus cases identified in the Victorian community in the second wave and people who were quarantined under the hotel program.
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