Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

When the outbreak first occurred and when the epidemiology of the outbreak was being undertaken, the facility was providing its own staffing until it came to the stage where we understood who had tested positive and what the staff shortages were, and when the assessments of the site had been completed. That process started on day one. The close contacts of the initial staff member were tracked and traced. With the understanding of who the close contacts were and who the positive staff members were, staff were progressively furloughed from the site and the surge workforce was brought in to compensate for the loss of staff through the furloughing of those people.