Article 57VP5 Coronavirus Australia latest update: health officials front Victoria's hotel inquiry as NSW and Qld try to stem clusters

Coronavirus Australia latest update: health officials front Victoria's hotel inquiry as NSW and Qld try to stem clusters

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Amy Remeikis
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More than 100 health workers at two Sydney hospitals and 200 staff at Ipswich hospital are in isolation. Follow live

11.23pm BST

Then we get this exchange over Michael McCormack's comments on the Black Lives Matter protests and Victoria's second wave:

Lisa Millar: Last night on Q+A the deputy prime minister linked the Victorian lockdowns with the second wave. It doesn't help, that a senior member, is perpetuating that myth.

11.18pm BST

Greg Hunt is then asked if the federal government has seen the modelling Victoria's authorities are using. He says it should be released publicly (it took weeks of asking for the federal government to release its modelling).

We have had the first elements. But we have yet to have the underlying assumptions and details.

I think it should probably be provided not just to the commonwealth but released publicly.

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