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Victoria on alert as a SECOND hotel quarantine worker tests positive for coronavirus – as authorities scramble to find out the Melbourne venues visited by the infected person
A second hotel quarantine worker in Victoria has tested positive for Covid, prompting a scramble to find out which venues the person visited.
The Victorian Department of Health said its public health teams are investigating and close contacts are being notified.
The alert comes after two separate groups of guests in adjacent rooms at Melbourne’s Park Royal Hotel tested positive for the more infectious B117 coronavirus variant, first detected in the United Kingdom.
Victoria’s Police Minister Lisa Neville, responsible for overseeing the revamped hotel quarantine program, said genomics had shown the infections were identical.
‘That means it’s as if they have been in the same room together,’ she told reporters on Wednesday.
One of the groups, a family of five who are all now infected with the virus, arrived from Nigeria on January 20 and tested positive four days later.
A fellow returned traveller in an adjacent room, who restarted her 14-day quarantine stint after her husband arrived on January 16, twice tested negative before returning a positive result on January 28.
Questions remain over how the woman in her 60s became infected, given her partner’s day three and 11 swabs were negative.
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