Coronavirus Australia update: Daniel Andrews gives press conference as Victoria reports 11 new cases and NSW 10 – live
The number of locally transmitted cases in Sydney is growing, dashing hopes of the Queensland border reopening next month. Follow live
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Queensland has reported no new cases - that makes 28 days since Queensland’s last case, which Chief Health Officer, Dr Kerry Chant has declared the last outbreak officially over.
On to Daniel Andrews
As expected, the questions are about Jenny Mikakos’s final submission to the hotel quarantine inquiry, where she asked the commission to treat Andrews’s evidence with ‘caution’.
Well, we have a board of inquiry that is writing a report. I don’t accept that criticism but ultimately that will be a matter for the board to report on among many other matters. That is an arm’s-length process and one that we should allow to run its course. In just a few weeks’ time, there will be a report and we will all be in a position to have a more detailed discussion about whatever it is that the board finds and recommendations that are made.
I have written in testimony and the board can draw that conclusion as I am sure they will. That is exactly the role they have to play.
...It is an ongoing process and I know it is frustrating. I would like to report to come tomorrow but it does take some time. The board has gone through the best part of 300 pages and have heard from many witnesses and that report is eagerly awaited by all of us because it will give us findings and advice on what we should do in terms of next steps but it is not appropriate for me to try to predict what that report will uncover, where they will land. It is entirely a matter for them. It is just a few weeks off and at that point Victorians can be confident I will take the action necessary to make sure these sorts of mistakes are not made again.
Let’s not speculate too much. My judgement will be there will be findings and then a series of different advice. The board will recommend to government and its agencies that certain changes could be made. That is what I think will come out of that report but it is a matter for them, they will do the work and I am confident they. As I have said many times, we will not hesitate to take up the findings and any recommendations made to ensure the changes are made so that we can not have that sort of thing happen again.
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