Victorian safety watchdog WorkSafe has charged the state’s health department with 58 breaches of occupational health and safety law over its management of its bungled hotel quarantine program early in the pandemic.
The health department had oversight of the program from March-July 2020, during which time there were several highly publicised breaches of infection control measures that were ultimately proven responsible for 99 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Victoria’s deadly second wave.
