Nurses detail 'chaotic' scenes in Victoria's hotel quarantine

Nurses have spoken at Victoria's inquiry into hotel quarantine about their concerns over breaches of mask protocol and other issues.

The Honourable Jennifer Coate AO is seen during the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry in Melbourne, Monday, July 20, 2020

Emekli hakim Jennifer Coate COVID-19 Otel Karantinası soruşturmasını yürütüyor. Source: AAP

A nurse says he was "blown away" when he saw a woman who tested positive to COVID-19 standing in a hotel lobby for two hours without a mask or gloves.

"I was off-shift when I saw her standing there without gloves or a mask on in the lobby filled with security guards. Some of them had their masks on, some of them didn't," Michael Tait told Victoria's inquiry into hotel quarantine on Thursday.

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