By Melissa Cunningham
Photo Wayne Taylor
A failure to invest resources into Victoria’s contact tracing system in the years preceding the coronavirus pandemic cost lives and led to significant mistakes that stopped the state swiftly getting on top of its deadly second wave, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
A report into the state’s contact tracing and testing regime was tabled in the Victorian Parliament on Monday following an inquiry established in October to probe the state government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis…
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Reason Party MP Fiona Patten chaired the parliamentary inquiry which examined issues with contact tracing across the second wave that saw more than 18,000 people infected and led to 801 deaths.
The committee said it found no evidence the government had acted on numerous reports outlining the need to employ more contact tracing staff in the years before the pandemic…
Read the full article on The Age’s website.
