Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has defended his state’s contact tracers in the wake of Melbourne’s fourth lockdown since the pandemic.
Professor Sutton was asked why Victoria was “getting contact tracing so wrong” given it was the only state to be dropped into four lockdowns.
He said it was an “absurd proposition” to suggest contact tracing had gone wrong.
Victorian contact tracers had identified 10,000 close and primary contacts to existing cases, but the source of the current outbreak emerged over two weeks ago.
The contact tracers had also come under fire for mis-labelling an exposure site, leading to mass confusion over the weekend.
