Second Melbourne hotel quarantine worker tests positive to COVD-19 - The Age

A hotel quarantine worker at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport has tested positive to coronavirus.

In a midnight alert, the Department of Health said the woman works at the hotel as an authorised officer and was tested at end of her shift on February 4, returning a negative result.

The department said she returned to work on Sunday morning and later developed symptoms.

The Department of Health said the woman tested negative when she left work on Thursday.Credit:Jason South

She was tested and subsequently returned a positive result.

“The individual is being interviewed and a full public health response is underway,” the alert stated.

The department said anyone considered a primary close contact, including some Holiday Inn Airport workers, should immediately isolate and get tested.

Public health teams are identifying exposure sites and have alreadly listed several locations in the city’s north west, inlcuding Maidstone, Sunshine and Taylors Lakes.

Further sites were being added to the department’s official exposure site list found here: www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/case-locations-and-outbreaks-covid-19

There are 1200 people already isolating as a result of a 26-year-old hotel quarantine worker who contracted the virus, most likely while working at Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt hotel.

The Holiday Inn case was revealed just hours after a health alert was issued in NSW following a positive diagnosis of a returned overseas travelling in Wollongong.

In response to the latest outbreak in Melbourne, health officials announced that testing capacity near exposure sites would be be scaled up from Monday, with increased opening hours, additional staff and pop-up sites to be confirmed.

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