‘Poor choice of words’: Jeroen Weimar apologises to Jewish community

Aug 19, 2021

Victorian COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar has apologised to Melbourne’s Jewish population after he mentioned members of the Orthodox community were among those who tested positive during a coronavirus briefing, saying it was a “poor choice of words”.

Mr Weimar, while describing on Wednesday the diversity of people who had caught COVID-19 in St Kilda and surrounding suburbs, mentioned that a member of the Orthodox Jewish community was among the positive cases.

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