Assessment protocols which allowed the COVID-carrying Ruby Princess cruise ship to enter Sydney should have already been scrapped and re-written, a senior NSW Health official says.
A draft document for cruise ship health procedures dated February 19 should have been updated from March 10, nine days before the vessel docked, NSW Health executive director Dr Jeremy McAnulty told an inquiry on Thursday.The change would have been in accordance with updated information regarding suspected COVID-19 cases from the Communicable Diseases Network of Australia.
"Have you just told me in effect that should all have been scrapped and rewritten?" Commissioner Bret Walker SC, overseeing the inquiry, asked.
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