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Daniel Andrews apologises for botched hotel quarantine program in Victoria

Report finds no one person was responsible for engaging private security, but premier regrets he didn’t use police

Daniel Andrews has apologised for failures in Victoria’s hotel quarantine program, blaming lack of time when the program was established in March for the errors and lack of oversight that led to Victoria’s second wave of Covid-19 cases.

The final report of the hotel quarantine inquiry, released on Monday, found the speed at which the program had to be set up meant proper risk assessments were not undertaken, paving the way for mistakes in infection control in hotels.

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