Patient zero in Victoria's disastrous second wave of coronavirus was a staff member at a hotel housing returned travellers - not a misbehaving security guard. Coaches wait for their police motorbike escort to take passengers to hotel quarantine off a flight from Melbourne at Sydney International Airport on August 8Jennifer Coate will be running the inquiry into the botched hotel quarantine programThe hotel did everything possible to contain the virus after learning of patient zero, but it was too late. Documents show the offer was refused because Victoria Police were in the 'advanced planning stages' of a quarantine program at the time. In the weeks to follow, Defence was 'repeatedly' told the hotel quarantine program was being well managed. Both Queensland and New South Wales took up the ADF's offer, and neither have reported any major breaches in the mandatory quarantine program.

Source: Daily Mail August 13, 2020 16:45 UTC