Victorian Health Minister Wanted the Army in Quarantine Hotels

Victorian Health Minister Wanted the Army in Quarantine Hotels
(L-R) Minister for Health, Jenny Mikakos, Premier Daniel Andrews, and Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton, Melbourne, Australia. March 11, 2020. Luis Ascui/Getty Images
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Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has slammed the decision to use security guards in Victoria’s quarantine hotels, saying she called for the army to replace them following coronavirus outbreaks.

Mikakos has told the state’s hotel quarantine inquiry she didn’t know private security guards were being used in the program until an outbreak at the Rydges on Swanston in mid-May.