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The Victorian government is looking at alternatives to the current hotel quarantine model, including setting up purpose-built facilities on land outside of the CBD.

Cases have been identified as a UK variant of the virus with no clear link to the border.

The Victorian government is looking at alternatives to the current hotel quarantine model, including setting up purpose-built facilities on land outside of the CBD.

This is days after 40 students of a nursing college in the East zone tested positive for COVID-19

Three Melbourne hospital psychiatric wards are locked down and more than 100 staff are told to quarantine as a worker with "unclear" coronavirus results is treated as a positive case.

Is Australias hotel quarantine system worth the risk as COVID variants spread? Here are the alternatives SatSaturday 13 updated SunSunday 14 FebFebruary 2021 at 11:37pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch 4 Share Print text only Cancel Just weeks after the virus jumped hotel containment lines in Queensland and Western Australia, Victoria now finds itself in the hot seat. The latest cluster of more than a dozen cases is believed ...

"[The virus] is moving at a velocity that has not been seen in our country," premier says.

"[The virus] is moving at a velocity that has not been seen in our country," premier says.

Victoria will enter a "short, sharp circuit-breaker" lockdown for five days to respond to fears the highly infectious UK strain of the virus has spread in the community, Premier Daniel Andrews confirms.

Two new cases linked to Melbourne's growing hotel cluster have been revealed.