The risk to the public of the recent case of the transmission UK COVID-19 variant in Melbourne hotel quarantine is “extremely low,” says the state’s Deputy Chief Health Officer Professor Melanie Van Twest.
Professor Twest said she “was not willing to put a name to” the kind of transmission that occurred but that it was likely airborne.Professor Twest said the “working hypothesis” was that a large group of people, all infectious at the same time, plus the more transmissible and infectious a UK variant led to the transmission.Professor Twest said the transmissibility of the UK variant was “rewriting a lot of the rule books as to how we manage this virus”.
Victorian health authorities are investigating a potential transmission of the UK variant of COVID-19 within one of the state’s quarantine hotels. The family tested positive to the UK strain on January 24 and were moved to a hotel for those with the virus. Three days later, the woman in her 60s in the room opposite the family also contracted the same strain, as did her husband.
Environmental testing and deep cleaning are underway and all positive cases were moved to a health hotel, where they remain in isolation. All staff are tested daily, and to date no staff have tested positive. “His role there was to monitor the floor to make sure no one left the room and as i said was sitting in a chair ... a safe distance from the room in question.”
The people the article speaks about were all asymptomatic. The family, and the single infected traveller. Go figure
We’ve had hotel quarantine workers in our radiology clinic just this week refusing to wear masks. My boss makes us scan them anyway because he likes money. If it’s in the hotels, it’s already out.
Que up the it's all the state leader's fault package. Just swap out the states name and run it.
Lets stop this hotel quarantine shite. I have seen enough.
More govt lies
So we are going to show you an unrelated picture at an outdoor testing clinic
Extend the state of emergency until December then for sure
Just in time for the extension of the SoE. Happens every time.
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