A worker in Victoria’s hotel quarantine program has tested positive for coronavirus.
Victorian health authorities sent out a late-night alert saying that close contacts of the individual were being notified and that public health teams were investigating the case. The Health Department did not provide any more information, but indicated further details would be released on Wednesday night.
The fresh case comes as Victorian health authorities investigate a transmission of the UK variant of COVID-19 within one of the state’s quarantine hotels after the virus jumped from a hotel room to a guest in the opposite room.The state’s public health team believe viral particles may have exited the room of a family who all later tested positive.
The spread sparked Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19, which claimed more than 800 lives and caused four months of tough restrictions.
It's time Daniel must go
Maybe hotel quarantine workers should have a restriction on how many public places they can visit in one week? I mean, this person really went to town.
Can we just impose a total ban on all international travel for like 5 years?
So many lockdown bots. Grow up and realise what is happening here. This is not normal. Stand up for our rights and our kids future.
So this will justify DanielAndrewsMP decision to continue Hotel Quarantine for the rest of the year. Will we ever get back? hotelquarantine
Ill call bullshit. When is that SOE legislation due for vote? After 28 days of no actives as well. Similiar situation to the last extension went a number of days before a mystery case occurred just as the SOE was up for renewal. Seeing a pattern yet folks FFS wake up!
Bs
Virus gonna virus. Protect the susceptible and be glad its such a low IFR and age stratified illness to which we have much pre-existing immunity. Stop accepting the idiocy. It has to stop.
wow Why hasn’t nsw tested a positive case of the new variant yet Interesting .... I thought they were bringing home the majority of Australians stuck overseas. Goes to show the other states in Australia not as lucky. This quarantine bizo comes down to luck.
Just put the bloody quarantine in remote areas and keep the workers quarantined and away from the city. Pay them well and people will line up for the job. Hotels were never designed to be quarantine facilities. This half assing by the Vic govt is beyond ridiculous.
But the Premier said we have the best system that other states should learn from
And not once has there been a case from a packed Coles or Safeway? SCAM o’clock
Lets stop hotel quarantine or have a central location
Move quarantine out of the cities.
leongouzenfiter
Hahaha better lock us up quick - quick and while you’re at it extend the SofE indefinitely DanielAndrewsMP
Michaelhcaldwe debacle
Like - how did I become pregnant ? Because you failed to use protection ! How thick are our governments: you cannot run the system with any integrity - just stop - do not prejudice the many for the few. Australian hotel quarantine is like Russian Roulette and just as deadly 🤬
sumeyyailanbey Oh ffs- just sort out these bloody quarantine workers or put the quarantine far away from our cities until you figure out how to stop these breaches!! It’s a joke
If only they’d sped up vaccination HQ workers ... 😔 (not front of the queue)
How long before Dan locks it all up again?
Lockdown time?
Reinstate home quarantine. Most Covid-19+ Aussies recovered **at home** w/o creating neighbourhood clusters.
Big fkn surprise...
1). When do they vote on extending the current “state of emergency” in Victoria...? 2). What’s the CT (cycle threshold) that the government is running the RT-PCR tests at....?
Lock metro
Just in time for the rollout.
sumeyyailanbey Nothing to blow up about they are tested daily. Their families weekly. They are ready for this.
L O C K D O W N
Full lockdown now.
So is this a hotel quarantine case or community transmission case?
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