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Victoria closes $580m Covid quarantine facility that housed 2,168 guests
North Melbourne facility was built and paid for by commonwealth after Covid leaked out of hotel quarantine program
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Victoria’s purpose-built Mickleham quarantine facility will close next week, having cost more than $500m to build and after housing 2,168 guests.
The facility, in Melbourne’s outer north, was operated by the Victorian government but built and paid for by the commonwealth after Covid-19 leaked out of Victoria’s hotel quarantine program.
Read the original article at The Guardian