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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Australian Associated Press and Adeshola Ore

Victoria closes $580m Covid quarantine facility that housed 2,168 guests

The Melbourne Covid quarantine facility Mickleham
The Melbourne Covid quarantine facility Mickleham will be closed, having cost $580m. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

Victoria’s purpose-built Mickleham quarantine facility will close next week, having cost more than $500m to build and after housing 2,168 guests.

The facility, in Melbourne’s outer north, was operated by the Victorian government but built and paid for by the commonwealth after Covid-19 leaked out of Victoria’s hotel quarantine program.

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