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SYDNEY, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) The Australian state of Victoria will start testing all hotel quarantine workers daily on Monday after another hotel quarantine worker tested positive to COVID-19 in less than a week.
Victorian health authorities announced minutes before midnight Sunday that the new case is a woman in her early 50s, who worked as an authorised officer at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport.
The woman was the second hotel quarantine worker who tested positive for the virus in the past week.
With a negative result at the end of her shift on Feb. 4, she returned to work on Sunday when she developed symptoms and later tested positive to COVID-19. Genomic testing is underway to determine which strain of the virus she contracted.
Aus state to tighten hotel quarantine program
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Melbourne, Feb 8 : The Australian state of Victoria will begin testing all hotel quarantine workers daily starting from Monday after another positive Covid-19 cases was detected in less than a week.
Victorian health authorities announced that the female patient in her early 50s had worked as an authorised officer at the Holiday Inn in Melbourne Airport, reports Xinhua news agency.
The woman was the second hotel quarantine worker who tested positive for the virus in the past week.
The Australian state of Victoria will begin testing all hotel quarantine workers daily starting from Monday after another positive Covid19 cases was detected in less than a week
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