A national audit of hotel quarantine could help us understand what is and is not working across the country and assess sites to see if they're suitable for containing the virus, says one of Australia's leading epidemiologists.
SA closed its border to Greater Melbourne on Wednesday.
Two new cases of COVID-19 have been linked to Melbourneâs Holiday Inn Airport outbreak, bringing the total number of cases in the cluster to 11 people.
A driver has died in a crash involving three trucks near the Victoria-SA border checkpoint.
The Australian Medical Association has slammed poor PPE standards and the fact a nebuliser was allowed into quarantine hotel.
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An outbreak linked to the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel has grown to 11 cases, as the government warns the response to the breach is still in the âopening quarterâ.
Victorian Health authorities announced two new cases - both household primary close contacts of hotel workers - at 1pm on Thursday, as health experts renewed demands that hotel quarantine workers get personal protective equipment on par with staff in high-risk COVID-19 hospital wards.
Two more Covid cases have been linked to the Holiday Inn hotel in Melbourne, bringing the number of locally-acquired cases to five, and leading doctors to warn the “more infectious UK strain has blown open cracks in our hotel quarantine system”. The two new cases are a worker at the hotel and a person who had completed quarantine on 7 February and been out in the community. Both were identified as close contacts of previous cases at the hotel..
How a nebuliser can give coronavirus millions more droplets to hitch a ride on
By national medical reporter Sophie Scott and the Specialist Reporting Team s Emily Clark
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FebFebruary 2021 at 3:43am
Authorities say a nebuliser is the likely source of transmission among some of the cases at the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn.
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A guest in Melbourne s hotel quarantine system was positive with COVID-19 when they used a nebuliser, believe experts, who say every second they used the machine they would have been releasing up to 10,000 times more aerosol particles than if they were breathing normally.