In August’s Four Corners report on Victoria’s bungled hotel quarantine, Australian Medical Association (AMA) president, Julian Rait, described Victoria’s contact tracing system as shambolic:
STEPHANIE MARCH: As the number of new cases climbed the state’s contact tracing system was failing to keep up… There are multiple accounts of the contact tracing system’s dysfunction…
PAT McGRATH, REPORTER: (To Julian Rait) So how would you characterize Victoria’s public health response to this pandemic?