Second wave could've been 'largely avoided' with better contact tracing: Hunt

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Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says coronavirus outbreaks in quarantine hotels only sparked a second wave because of the state’s deficient contact tracing system

"The evidence is NSW had the equivalent of about six hotel quarantine breaches in terms of cases that have come from Victoria [and spread into the community]… The difference is they’ve been able to recognise them, chase them down, get on top of them early.

"It’s pretty clear numbers got beyond Victoria’s capacity to deal with every case in a timely way," Professor Sutton told 3AW's Neil Mitchell. "They might have been in an area with a number of people who were casual contacts … and has spread to a number of them who all went away without knowing they were close contacts and our system couldn’t trace," he said."I can’t say it would have been stopped with a NSW system."

 

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You are wrong it is federal responsibility to stop virus at borders same as done for biosecurity. Stop at Custom test, quarantine in governement secure facility, not hotels and on way from airport to hotel infecting everyone else. Remember COVID19 was brought to Australia.

Stop playing the political game you fool. We the public are not stupid.

What do you want to trace, you need 20% infection rate so the sooner the better.

The 1st wave was only sparked by non existent border controls ie RubyPrincess and not initially quarantining return travellers GregHuntMP ScottMorrisonMP PeterDutton_MP

Chemical weapon on the way , how many waves depends on CCP , Not your prediction .

That’s what I call putting the cart before the horse. You can stop the wave by contact tracing before there’s any contact to trace. Genius. auspol

so THE LAWYER is telling us about MEDICINE ... oh do tell us more godlike person

Surprise Surprise Surprise And they were using your PRECIOUS TracingApp Millhouse go figure

Maybe he could of rolled out an all that worked then?

How about because we allowed travelers with the virus to come to Australia?

GregHuntMP ScottMorrisonMP It's the deficient COVIDSafe app. How much money did you waste on it again?

GREG your app failed the country

Wasn't there an app for that? Like sunscreen?

If only we had a covid app that actually worked eh GregHuntMP How much of OUR money did you waste on it again? I know contact tracers in Victoria and know how hard they are working, far more comprehensively than any app would have. Stop bullying us. It's not on. auspol

GregHuntMP But what about the Covid app? liarfromMelbourne LNPCrimeFamily

Tracing....don't we have an app for that ;)

Oh, if only the Federal Government had launched an app that could trace contacts 😳 ScottMorrisonMP GregHuntMP

Victoria's contract tracing regime was no different to NSW's All these federal liberal govt's attacks on a labor state are disgusting at the time that we Victorians are doing our absolute best to get out from under. Shut the F%^& Up!

I thought there was an app for this?

More deflection by this government. DanielAndrewsMP stand up to these accusations

hang on..wasn't the contact tracing linked to the COVID app which came from the FEDs Fed up with the liberal bullshit!

What happened to the fed government contact tracing app?

What about all those OLD PEOPLE he GregHuntMP let DIE IN NEWMARCH HOUSE and DOROTHY HENDERSON LODGE? They were in NSW...months before? Anyone.

Didn't the federal LNP ask everyone to use a tracing app that turned out not to do the job they payed millions for? They're not good managers auspol

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