Victorian Hotels ‘Lacked COVID Cleaning Advice’

A woman looks out of the window in an inner-city hotel where travellers returned from overseas are staying in isolation in Melbourne on March 30, 2020. William West/AFP via Getty Images

Victoria’s quarantine hotels were not provided with specific advice on cleaning procedures until mid-June, an inquiry into the program has heard.

Unni Menon, a senior executive at the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, was tasked on the afternoon of March 27 with contracting hotels to be used in the program just 48 hours later.