Coronavirus as it happened: Victorian household gatherings limited, masks made mandatory indoors after Melbourne hotel quarantine worker tests positive for COVID-19; WA lockdown continues

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A male hotel quarantine worker who tested positive to coronavirus worked at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said

Quarantine worker provided detailed informationThe hotel quarantine worker who tested positive to coronavirus has provided detailed information to health authorities, says Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton.

“This is a test that’s come through in the afternoon. We’ve already ramped up every aspect of the response that we know needs to be in place to get ahead of it.” “There’s a number of five or six hundred people that are either players, officials [or] others who are casual contacts,” he said.

 

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Guess what? If we'd been 'at the front of the line for vaccines' as promised this situation may not have been the issue it is at the moment.

Can we start naming and shaming people who bring covid into the country? Because each outbreak is f***ing expensive for the economy.

DanielAndrewsMP Bored are we Daniel

SMH. Please re-read your headline. My English teacher would have bled all over it.

I guess the good news is that international students are even more unlikely to be let back soon. What was the immigration status of the hotel guard?

DanielAndrewsMP just resign already you caused enough damage

Quarantine has to be moved out of the cities and not staffed by low paid hotel and security staff. The community deserves greater levels of circuit breaking distancing. Frontline staff cannot walk out of work and into multiple city venues. Every state has got it wrong to date.

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