Security guards are set to be replaced by airline staff in Melbourne's quarantine hotels after a sex scandal was linked to Victoria's second coronavirus wave. A job advertisement posted by the Department of Justice on Qantas' internal job is calling on airline staff to take over from trained security guards who were tasked with enforcing mandatory 14-day quarantine for returned travellers. Claims that guards were sexually active with guests in isolation are being investigated as part of a probe into the state's bungled quarantine program. The Herald Sun reported airline staff are already replacing security guards at several major hotels. An emergency field hospital is being erected at Melbourne Showgrounds to cater for a feared spike in cases from the housing commission towers.

Source: Daily Mail July 05, 2020 16:38 UTC