A senior NSW Health physician has told the Ruby Princess inquiry it "was not unusual" for cruise ships to defy government requests to collect coronavirus swabs in the early stages of the pandemic.It went on to become Australia's largest source of COVID-19 infectionsBy late February, the state's chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant had written to the cruise industry with guidelines calling for COVID-19 swabs to also be collected when patients were tested for influenza.
Dr Sheppeard said the department had learnt there was a "practical difficulty" for the industry to secure COVID-19 swabs due to shortages. Dr Sheppeard it was "not specifically her job" to consider the issue, but accepted she was "part of a group" with responsibility.
I read a piece early on which reported that the Ruby passengers were allowed to disembark bc aboard were friends of a politician. They didn't want to quarantine.
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