Melbourne hotel quarantine worker tests positive to coronavirus hours before Australian Open begins
Daily MailAustralia's east coast is on high alert for yet another coronavirus outbreak after two hotel quarantine breaches within hours of each other. NSW Health authorities are also scrambling after a traveller tested positive two days after they were released from hotel quarantine in Sydney. A hotel quarantine worker at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport has tested positive to coronavirus Melbourne venues Dan Murphy's, 47 McIntyre Rd Sunshine, February 5, 5:50-6:30pm and February 6, 6:50-7:30pm Off Ya Tree Watergardens, 399 Melton Highway Taylors Lakes, February 6, 1:17-1:52pm Marciano's Cakes, 126 Mitchell St Maidstone, February 5, 9:45-10:25am Once they arrived in Wollongong, they visited 10 other locations including a post office, busy shopping centre, and and Officeworks before having the positive test. The Australian Open was thrown into chaos last week after a quarantine hotel worker tested positive to what's since been confirmed as the highly contagious UK strain of the virus. The infected case dined at the Mootch & Me cafe in Brighton Le Sands between 10.54am- 12pm last Tuesday Other venues included Thirroul Beach, a popular shopping centre in Figtree, an Optus store in North Wollongong, Woolworths in Bulli, a hotel in Austinmer and an Officeworks in Fairy Meadow visited twice in the space of 24 hours.