Returned travellers staying on the same floor as the latest COVID-19 leak from hotel quarantine have been ordered back into two weeks isolation.
South Australia‘s chief health officer Nicola Spurrier confirmed on Wednesday evening out of “an abundance of caution” those people who were on the same level at the same time as a Victorian man who later tested positive would be required to quarantine for a further 14 days.
She also confirmed genomic sequencing results had determined the Victorian man’s infection was linked to a positive case at the Tom’s Court medi-hotel in Adelaide.
Professor Spurrier said investigations into the precise cause of transmission were ongoing but those on level three of the Playford Hotel would have to isolate again.
The Melbourne man who tested positive had arrived in Australia from COVID-ravaged India and caught the virus in hotel quarantine.
The man, aged in his 30s, had completed hotel quarantine in South Australia after returning to Australia from India via the Maldives on April 19.
He returned to his Wollert home in Melbourne’s north on May 4 and developed symptoms four days later.
“Those people who were on level three of the hotel during the period of concern who have subsequently been discharged will be required to quarantine for a further 14 days,” Professor Spurrier said in a statement.
“This includes 10 South Australians who will be able to quarantine at home, if the home setting is suitable.”
An SA Health spokeswoman said 24 other international travellers also quarantining on the third floor of the Playford Hotel had since returned to Queensland, Victoria and NSW.
But she said it would be up to each state’s individual chief health officer as to whether they would also be required to isolate for a further 14 days.
She said SA Health had previously contacted all of the 24 returned travellers and advised them to isolate until they received a negative result.
NCA NewsWire has contacted Queensland, Victoria and NSW health departments.
SA Health said the “vast majority” of medi-hotel staff working at the time had their required daily testing.
“There are only five medi-hotel staff that we are still following up,” they said.
Victorian health authorities have identified 81 primary close contacts from four venues that were deemed exposure sites during the four days the man spent in the community.
The Victorian health department said 41 primary contacts had tested negative so far.
The have been no positive community cases linked to the man at this stage, with his three household primary close contacts also returning negative results.
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