An independent report commissioned by the government says donors infected with the Hepatitis C Virus were advised they could give blood until a direction stopping the practise in July 1990.
But some people were still allowed to donate until September that year when tests ffor the virus became widely available.
As a result of the widespread national confusion on how the virus should be screened, almost a dozen people were infected through blood transfusions in New South Wales in 1991.
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