Covid 19 coronavirus: Australian quarantine patient evacuated with rubbish bag over head
16 Feb, 2021 12:34 AM
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The bizarre headgear may have been designed to protect the patient s identity. Photo / News Corp
The bizarre headgear may have been designed to protect the patient s identity. Photo / News Corp
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By: Jack Paynter
The first coronavirus positive patient has been evacuated from a Melbourne quarantine hotel after a sprinkler system caused extensive water damage.
They left the Holiday Inn hot hotel on Flinders Lane just before 10am and came out of the hotel with what appeared to be a rubbish bag over their head.
Victoria has recorded four new cases of coronavirus. And in another blow to Victoria’s besieged quarantine program, a “hot hotel” and its COVID-infected residents are set to be evacuated.
The Chief Health Officer has declared Greater Metropolitan Melbourne including Tullamarine Airport as a COVID-19 Hotspot for the purposes of travel to.