yes and that Security Guard then worked while positive at other locations including a shopping centre.
Plus I think interstate that even the police were in one case shown to have done the wrong thing. And an ADF Member while quarantining had a female guest stay overnight.
NZ has had multiple breaches.
Plus in Vic.
- 3 quarantine leaks
- 1 virtually no cases
- 1 a small number of cases
- 1 was the source of most of the second wave (Index case may have been the night manager and not security guards).
- One reason why this was much larger than the other two was that a super-spreader was involved early on
- Another reason was that unlike the first wave it was into quite different demographics than before -Many of these clusters were then linked to large families living in crowded conditions =much larger R0.
- Compounding this was that many were also in low paid jobs with no paid sick leave and / or more distrust in authorities. So less people present for testing, or if tested actually isolate.
- Then with growing cases contact tracing got overwhelmed. Was not up to scratch, but even good systems cannot handled that many cases per day (ie Think about the number of people involved for third ring around 700 new daily caes).
In addition as I posted a while back while many are concerned with the hiring of security guards, they have worked in all jurisdictions, the bigger problem for mine was that no one person/organisation seemed to be managing and was responsible for the whole hotel quarantine process. Without that central responsibility/management things fall through the cracks such as infection control, PPE training etc etc.
That is not to say that the way the Security Contracts were not done poorly as they were badly done in multiple ways, but rather it was only one of a number of issues some of which were chance. Some were bad management by the Vic Gov. Some was the public not doing the right thing for a number of reasons (and pleasingly there are now many responses in place to mitigate such behaviours).
