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Capture — two hotels
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Capture — two hotels
- Claim filed: Hotel quarantine would contain returned travellers. The inquiry measured the leak.
- Who: Victorian hotel program (Andrews government); expert evidence to the Coate inquiry
- URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-18/victoria-covid-crisis-traced-back-to-seven-travellers-inquiry/12568408
- Date: 18 August 2020
- Publisher: ABC News
- Title: Victoria's coronavirus crisis traced back to seven travellers…
- Captured: 2026-08-14
Verbatim (inquiry, ABC)
Dr Charles Alpren, Department of Health and Human Services:
It is likely that a high proportion, approximately 99 per cent of current cases of COVID-19 in Victoria have arisen from Rydges or Stamford.
Two hotels. Seven returned travellers at the start of the chains. Rydges on Swanston; Stamford Plaza.
Andrews, after the report
Guardian, 21 December 2020 — guardian-hotel-2020-12-21.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/21/daniel-andrews-apologises-for-botched-hotel-quarantine-program-in-victoria
Andrews apologised for failures, blamed lack of time. National cabinet, 27 March 2020: mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine, stood up in 36 hours. Coate: no one person owned the private-security decision. News.com.au (same report): 99 per cent of the second wave and 801 deaths linked to those outbreaks.
Holiday Inn, Melbourne Airport, February 2021: another leak, then the “circuit-breaker” already filed.
What this file does not do
It does not file “never quarantine anyone.” It files a 36-hour wall that the genome said did not hold.