All frontline hotel quarantine workers will have received a COVID-19 vaccine before flights of international returnees arrive in Melbourne on April 8, the Victorian state government has confirmed. This comes as the Andrews Labor government commits to a “reset” of the hotel quarantine program following an inquiry that found last year’s second wave and its “devastating social and economic consequences”—including over 800 associated deaths—were caused by breaches in hotel quarantine. “The advice I have is that all staff working in hotel quarantine in those front-facing roles will be vaccinated once the program resumes on the 8th of April,” Labor Minister Jacinta Allan said on April 5. “The vast majority of hotel quarantine workers have already been vaccinated, and only those who have been vaccinated will be working in hotel quarantine from the 8th of April in those front-facing roles,” Allan said. This also follows a review of “variants of concern,” led …