Two Australian states have urged staff and guests in COVID-19 quarantine hotels to get tested for the coronavirus immediately and fully self-isolate, as they began investigations into three suspected cases of travellers contracting the virus from other residents.
Australian citizens arriving back from overseas are required to spend two weeks in quarantine at a hotel at their own expense before returning home as part of the border closures Australia introduced in March last year as the pandemic spread around the world. More than 200,000 people have passed through the system since.
Officials in New South Wales (NSW) and Western Australia state – on opposite sides of the country – said genetic sequencing found links to the same sequence of virus in infected guests resident in hotels in Sydney and Perth during routine tests. The cases are not currently believed to be connected.
Australia states investigate COVID-19 spread in quarantine hotels
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Covid-19: Australia states investigate spread in quarantine hotels
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