Victoria's DHHS confirms further two hotel quarantine workers were infected since 'reset' announcement
At least 11 people working at Victoria's "hot" hotels contracted coronavirus after the Government announced a reset of the scheme, Victoria's health department has confirmed.
The department has today confirmed the two additional staff members contracted the virus between July 1 and July 27, and worked while infectious.
They were not believed to be symptomatic while at work.
The DHHS says one of the cases is thought to have acquired the virus while working as part of the team responding to COVID-19 inside public housing towers.
They are then thought to have infected the second case.
When the Premier stood up on June 30 and told Victorians that major failures in the state's hotel quarantine program had led to what would become the state's deadly second wave, he also announced a "reset" of the program.
International flights were stopped from entering Melbourne.
Over the past three months, hotel quarantine has continued to operate for Victorians with COVID-19 who needed to self-isolate but could not do so safely at home, and a small number of returned international travellers have been accepted on compassionate grounds.
The Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS) gradually took over as lead agency from the DHHS in early July, and Corrections Victoria staff were brought in to oversee the hotel quarantine program.
The DHHS today said the two additional cases were diagnosed "before the hotel quarantine program was transitioned to the Department of Justice and Community Safety" and so were not counted in the nine hotel quarantine workers diagnosed since July 27.
The first time the two cases were mentioned by DHHS was on July 25.
Reporting by Yara Murray-Atfield
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