Victorian coronavirus outbreak at Melbourne hotel after security guards reportedly breached physical-distancing guidelines
4 years, 6 months ago

Victorian coronavirus outbreak at Melbourne hotel after security guards reportedly breached physical-distancing guidelines

ABC  

Victorian health authorities believe physical-distancing breaches by some government-contracted security guards at a Melbourne hotel used to quarantine returned travellers may have contributed to an outbreak that has now grown to seven cases. Key points: The Government says its plans to further lift Victoria's restrictions on Monday remain in place The Government says its plans to further lift Victoria's restrictions on Monday remain in place Four of the new cases are linked to an outbreak at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Melbourne Four of the new cases are linked to an outbreak at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Melbourne This is the third day in a row where more than 10 cases have been recorded in a single day The state recorded 13 new cases of coronavirus overnight, including five people who were contracted to work in the government's mandatory quarantine program at the Stamford Plaza hotel in Melbourne's CBD. Deputy Chief Health Officer Annaliese van Diemen said it appeared there were some breaches of physical-distancing measures at the hotel, with "closer mingling of these guards" than authorities would like. The new cases also included two people linked to a family outbreak, one close contact of a known case associated with the Rydges on Swanston Hotel outbreak, and one returned traveller in hotel quarantine.

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Visiting hours cut at Perth hospitals as COVID detected at Hollywood hospital, Amana Living
2 years, 10 months ago

Visiting hours cut at Perth hospitals as COVID detected at Hollywood hospital, Amana Living

ABC  

Hospital visiting hours have been reduced to just two hours twice a day across all public hospitals in Perth in response to growing COVID-19 cases in WA. Key points: WA hospitals shifted to an 'amber alert' level as Omicron spreads This triggers a number of measures to protect patients and staff It comes as the virus is detected in another …

Covid can spread between rooms in hotel quarantine, research shows
3 years ago

Covid can spread between rooms in hotel quarantine, research shows

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In one case in July, a single traveller in hotel quarantine in Auckland infected three others in a room across …

WA coronavirus update: Five COVID cases emerge in Perth outbreak
3 years ago

WA coronavirus update: Five COVID cases emerge in Perth outbreak

ABC  

Western Australia has recorded five new COVID cases, a day after an unvaccinated French backpacker tested positive to the disease. WA Premier Mark McGowan said one was a close contact of case 1133, who attended an event with the man at the Perth Mess Hall in Northbridge on December 19. Fremantle hostel locked down Mr McGowan said 100 of the …

Travellers from South Africa required to quarantine in hotels if positive for Covid
3 years, 1 month ago

Travellers from South Africa required to quarantine in hotels if positive for Covid

NL Times  

Anyone who tests positive for coronavirus out of about 600 passengers who returned from South Africa will be required to quarantine in a hotel, the GGD Kennemerland said. It concerns only those passengers who departed on two KLM aircraft from South Africa before the Netherlands implemented a flight ban from that country, but who landed in the Netherlands after the …

No open windows and shared facilities: Inside the Melbourne detention hotel where COVID-19 is spreading
3 years, 2 months ago

No open windows and shared facilities: Inside the Melbourne detention hotel where COVID-19 is spreading

ABC  

For the past two weeks, refugee Mohammad Miah hasn't left the four walls of his bedroom in inner Melbourne. Key points: 7.30 has obtained video from inside Melbourne's Park Hotel showing detainees in rooms without open windows and using shared facilities Half of all detainees have now been infected with COVID-19 Refugee advocates are also concerned about the level of …

COVID-19 outbreak at Melbourne detention hotel sees 17 asylum seekers test positive, one admitted to hospital
3 years, 2 months ago

COVID-19 outbreak at Melbourne detention hotel sees 17 asylum seekers test positive, one admitted to hospital

ABC  

At least 17 asylum seekers detained in a Melbourne facility have tested positive to COVID-19, with one person being treated in hospital. Key points: The Park Hotel in Melbourne is being used as an alternative detention facility to house asylum seekers An asylum seeker who contracted COVID-19 there said he did not feel safe Australian Border Force says 55 per …

Victoria set to scrap COVID-19 quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated international travellers
3 years, 2 months ago

Victoria set to scrap COVID-19 quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated international travellers

ABC  

Victoria is set to scrap COVID-19 quarantine requirements for international arrivals from next month, bringing it into line with New South Wales. It's understood arriving travellers would need to be fully immunised and test negative for coronavirus. At this stage, it's believed the quarantine changes will be officially announced at Friday's COVID-19 media conference. Melbourne opening up after 263 days …

Coronavirus Australia: Dan Andrews takes swipe at NSW lockdown picnics amid Covid vaccine row
3 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus Australia: Dan Andrews takes swipe at NSW lockdown picnics amid Covid vaccine row

Daily Mail  

Dan Andrews has accused the federal government of playing favourites by handing out extra doses of Covid vaccine from the national stockpile to New South Wales. Victorians are being duded when it comes to its coronavirus vaccine supply, according to Dan Andrews, saying jabs have been taken out of the arms of Victorians so that Sydneysiders could 'go and have …

Hotspot travellers locked out of Queensland as authorities pause COVID-19 hotel quarantine
3 years, 4 months ago

Hotspot travellers locked out of Queensland as authorities pause COVID-19 hotel quarantine

ABC  

Travel plans for people trying to relocate to Queensland have been thrown into disarray with the announcement the state is pausing arrivals from interstate hotspots for the next fortnight. Key points: People who have already received a "right of entry" border pass will have to reapply The Premier said the pause would help manage quarantine hotel capacity Health Minister Yvette …

Victoria records 45 new local COVID-19 cases, workers flying in to bolster hospital network
3 years, 4 months ago

Victoria records 45 new local COVID-19 cases, workers flying in to bolster hospital network

ABC  

Victoria will fly in 350 medical staff from overseas to ease the pressure on its weary health system, as doctors warn hospital staffing plans are urgently needed to prepare for the next phase of the pandemic. Key points: The staff will begin work across 30 health services by October The staff will begin work across 30 health services by October …

Richmond public housing tower among new Victorian COVID-19 exposure sites
3 years, 4 months ago

Richmond public housing tower among new Victorian COVID-19 exposure sites

ABC  

A public housing tower in Richmond has been listed as an exposure site with a case having visited the premises over several days between August 14 and 20. A Bakers Delight outlet in Shepparton's Vaughan Street has also been listed as a tier 2 site, with a case attending between August 15, 8:00am to 11:00am and August 16, between 9:00am …

Victoria records 57 new local COVID-19 cases, 44 quarantined while infectious
3 years, 4 months ago

Victoria records 57 new local COVID-19 cases, 44 quarantined while infectious

ABC  

Victoria recorded 57 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, but with 44 in quarantine while infectious, authorities say the system is working. COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar said the three unlinked infections were "genuine mystery cases" in Ascot Vale, Doncaster and Glenroy. Wastewater detections in industrial area of 'greatest concern' The Acting Chief Health Officer said authorities were continuing …

Victoria pushes for more COVID tests as cases and mystery infections climb
3 years, 4 months ago

Victoria pushes for more COVID tests as cases and mystery infections climb

ABC  

Victorian officials have ramped up a push for more people to be tested for COVID-19 amid fears the virus is spreading undetected in Melbourne. Key points: A new campaign urges people to assume any cold or flu symptoms are COVID-19 and get tested straight away An infectious diseases specialist says this outbreak is different to others this year due to …

Coronavirus Australia: Daniel Andrews no-show amid fears Melbourne lockdown could be extended
3 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus Australia: Daniel Andrews no-show amid fears Melbourne lockdown could be extended

Daily Mail  

Melbourne's chances of emerging from its sixth lockdown this week remain on knife's edge, despite no coronavirus cases in intensive care. Health officials are concerned about Caroline Springs in Melbourne's north-west where 25 cases linked with the Caroline Springs Square shopping centre There are growing fears Melbourne's lockdown will be extended beyond midnight Thursday. IPC Health St Albans, 1 Andrea …

Brisbane hospitals under pressure, health staff in isolation as COVID Delta outbreak escalates
3 years, 5 months ago

Brisbane hospitals under pressure, health staff in isolation as COVID Delta outbreak escalates

ABC  

Surgeries are being cancelled, COVID-19 care facilities ramped up and the state's children's hospital is being kept in reserve as Queensland Health braces for a possible major surge in coronavirus infections, especially among children. Key points: Four hospitals can handle COVID-19 cases but Queensland Health is urgently trying to "ramp up" and bring more online There were more than 400 …

Backpackers 'unclear what's going down' as Queensland Health keeps them locked up in Brisbane hostels
3 years, 5 months ago

Backpackers 'unclear what's going down' as Queensland Health keeps them locked up in Brisbane hostels

ABC  

Backpackers potentially exposed to a COVID-19 case were left locked up in two Brisbane hostels last night despite Queensland Health admitting the venues did not allow occupants to quarantine properly. Key points: Contact tracers are looking for anybody who was at the Roma Street City Backpackers in Brisbane since July 22 Dr Jeannette Young has expressed concern about the mounting …

Hotel quarantine health fears increasing for couple after another guest gets COVID-19
3 years, 5 months ago

Hotel quarantine health fears increasing for couple after another guest gets COVID-19

ABC  

"It's not boo-hoo we don't like hotels, it's that hotels are not quarantine facilities" — that's the reaction of one "terrified" traveller stuck in a Brisbane hotel that is the site of Queensland's latest COVID-19 outbreak. Key points: A man is thought to have caught the virus from a group from South Africa staying in the same hotel Some hotel …

Fears customers exposed to COVID-19 at Campsie shopping centre for 11 days
3 years, 5 months ago

Fears customers exposed to COVID-19 at Campsie shopping centre for 11 days

ABC  

Health authorities have identified a shopping mall in Sydney's south-west as "a key venue of concern" amid fears customers could have been exposed to COVID-19 there for 11 days. Key points: Anyone who attended the Campsie Centre between July 14 and 24 is deemed a close contact Dr McAnulty says "many people" have been exposed at the centre Shopping centre …

Coronavirus Australia: Millions of Victorians to be RELEASED from lockdown as Sydney cases soar
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus Australia: Millions of Victorians to be RELEASED from lockdown as Sydney cases soar

Daily Mail  

Victorians are set to be released from their fifth lockdown Victorians are on track to throw off the shackles of their fifth Covid lockdown on Wednesday, but the nightmare is only just beginning for Sydneysiders who could remain under stay-at-home orders until at least mid-September. NSW government has made a request for financial modelling to assess the devastating effect of …

Coronavirus Australia: Sydney Covid exposure sites - Coles, Dan Murphy's, Woolworths, Westfield
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus Australia: Sydney Covid exposure sites - Coles, Dan Murphy's, Woolworths, Westfield

Daily Mail  

A worrying new Covid exposure list has been revealed with an alert for 19 venues across Sydney including Coles, Woolworths, Dan Murphy's and an Aldi supermarket. Three venues at Westfield Penrith Plaza in Sydney's west have been confirmed as Covid exposure sites by NSW Health The same applies anyone who visited grocery store 'Fred's One-Stop Shop' on Friday July 9 …

Sydney's coronavirus outbreak is moving from east to west and starting to look like Melbourne's second wave
3 years, 6 months ago

Sydney's coronavirus outbreak is moving from east to west and starting to look like Melbourne's second wave

ABC  

As NSW records another 38 locally acquired COVID-19 cases, the race is on to nip the spread in Western Sydney in the bud, with failure to do so likely to prolong this outbreak. The situation could bear similarities to how the virus thrived through Melbourne's second wave: aided by a combination of higher rates of precarious work, larger households and …

Coronavirus Australia: Coles, Commonwealth Bank, McDonald's, Woolworths added Sydney exposure list
3 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus Australia: Coles, Commonwealth Bank, McDonald's, Woolworths added Sydney exposure list

Daily Mail  

Supermarkets across Sydney have been added to the city's spiralling Covid exposure list, just hours before millions are due to learn whether lockdown will be extended. The situation is also worsening in Sydney's west, with customers of the Coles at Westfield Parramatta and Country Growers grocery store told to isolate for 14 days regardless of whether they get a negative …

Sydney aged care COVID-19 outbreak spreads, three residents test positive
3 years, 6 months ago

Sydney aged care COVID-19 outbreak spreads, three residents test positive

ABC  

The daughter of an elderly man who tested positive for COVID-19 in a Sydney aged care home says unvaccinated staff who brought the virus in are "a disgrace". Key points: The three residents have been taken to Westmead Hospital as a precaution Summit Care says 96 per cent of the 149 residents have been vaccinated The home is being cleaned, …

See the full list of Victoria's COVID-19 exposure sites
3 years, 6 months ago

See the full list of Victoria's COVID-19 exposure sites

ABC  

Victorian authorities are urging anyone who has been at a number of exposure sites around Melbourne to come forward for testing. New exposure sites have been added after it emerged that a flight attendant who spent a night in Melbourne was a positive coronavirus case. The Victorian Health Department has identified four new exposure sites, including Melbourne Airport terminals 2 …

Victorian COVID-19 review finds 277 instances of patients catching virus in hospital
3 years, 6 months ago

Victorian COVID-19 review finds 277 instances of patients catching virus in hospital

ABC  

Victorian woman Jennifer Allison says watching her mother Lily dying after she contracted COVID-19 in hospital was traumatic. Key points: The Department of Health report found COVID-19 spread at 30 hospitals, mostly in outbreak hotspots in Melbourne's north and west Shared rooms, limited ventilation, unrecognised infections and high-risk behaviours including patient wandering were noted as risk factors The report noted …

Covid Australia: Melbourne out of Victoria's lockdown after one new case on Wednesday
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid Australia: Melbourne out of Victoria's lockdown after one new case on Wednesday

Daily Mail  

Millions of Victorians will finally be let out of most aspects of lockdown on Friday, but crippling restrictions will remain in place despite the state reporting just one new and traceable Covid-19 case on Wednesday. Acting Premier James Merlino on Wednesday said metropolitan Melbourne will move to 'most of the same settings' currently in place across regional Victoria, with masks …

How the Delta COVID variant likely jumped Victorian hotel quarantine and started a Melbourne outbreak
3 years, 7 months ago

How the Delta COVID variant likely jumped Victorian hotel quarantine and started a Melbourne outbreak

ABC  

Victoria is one step closer to solving the mystery of how the Delta strain of COVID-19 slipped into the community, and it looks like another hotel quarantine leak is the culprit. Theory two: The traveller transmitted the virus to a quarantine staff member Professor Cheng said the public health team, which had only learnt about the link on Monday, was …

Victoria records two new local COVID cases, possible source for Delta cluster found
3 years, 7 months ago

Victoria records two new local COVID cases, possible source for Delta cluster found

ABC  

Acting Premier James Merlino says Victoria remains on track for an easing of restrictions on Friday, with just two more cases being detected in the state's coronavirus outbreak. "I can confirm today that we have now found a match between a returned traveller who entered hotel quarantine in Melbourne on the 8th of May and this cluster," he said. Acting …

What's next in Victoria's COVID crisis? Here are four things to watch
3 years, 7 months ago

What's next in Victoria's COVID crisis? Here are four things to watch

ABC  

Victorian health officials say the state is running neck-and-neck with this COVID-19 crisis and the next few days will be critical. Health officials are hoping to find out today whether the new case in a worker at the Arcare Aged Care home at Maidstone, in Melbourne's west, is linked to that case. Victorian COVID-19 snapshot Outbreak cases: 190 Outbreak cases: …

Covid-19 Australia: The four 'high risk' Melbourne venues worrying Victorian officials the most
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 Australia: The four 'high risk' Melbourne venues worrying Victorian officials the most

Daily Mail  

A suburban butcher and a grocery store are among the four new 'high risk' venues added to Victoria's spiralling list of Covid-19 exposure sites. Anyone who shopped at the Thai Huy Butcher shop in Footscray in the city's inner-west between 1.40pm and 2.30pm on May 26 must get tested immediately and self-isolate for 14 days from the point of exposure. …

NT introduces 'day 17 test' for COVID to prevent a local repeat of Victoria's coronavirus outbreak
3 years, 7 months ago

NT introduces 'day 17 test' for COVID to prevent a local repeat of Victoria's coronavirus outbreak

ABC  

Victoria's coronavirus outbreak — and breaches in hotel quarantine more generally — have spurred a new coronavirus testing measure in the Northern Territory. Key points: The change affects repatriated Australians coming to the NT after quarantining interstate Those people will need to get tested 17 days after they began quarantine The rule is being introduced because of repeated breaches of …

Why Melbourne yet again? The factors that fed into the latest coronavirus lockdown
3 years, 7 months ago

Why Melbourne yet again? The factors that fed into the latest coronavirus lockdown

ABC  

As the anxiety-inducing threat of yet another lockdown loomed on Wednesday, many Victorians were asking: Why do these things always seem to happen to us? Mr Morrison has said the hotel quarantine system had been "99.9 per cent effective". Professor Toole said he did not understand how Prime Minister Scott Morrison could assert that hotel quarantine was "99.99 per cent …

List of Melbourne COVID exposure sites grows as new areas of concern added
3 years, 7 months ago

List of Melbourne COVID exposure sites grows as new areas of concern added

ABC  

The list of coronavirus exposure sites in Victoria continued to grow on Friday night after it was reported one of the latest positive cases worked during their infectious period, without symptoms, for a large food distribution centre. The new tier 1 exposure sites are: Summerhill Shopping Centre at 850 Plenty Rd, Reservoir between 4:20pm and 5:30pm on Tuesday, May 18 …

Covid-19 Australia: How 18-second sliding doors moment in hotel quarantine brought Victoria lockdown
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 Australia: How 18-second sliding doors moment in hotel quarantine brought Victoria lockdown

Daily Mail  

An 18-second sliding doors moment between returned travellers in South Australian hotel quarantine sparked the Covid-19 outbreak that has plunged Melbourne into another crippling snap lockdown. An 18-second sliding doors moment between returned travellers at Adelaide's Playford Hotel sparked Melbourne's outbreak, a report has found The list of potential Covid-19 exposure sites in Victoria has reached 150 locations as of …

MELBOURNE POSTCODES HIT WITH COVID-19 CASES
3 years, 7 months ago

MELBOURNE POSTCODES HIT WITH COVID-19 CASES

Daily Mail  

Read articles that feature this panel How all it took was an 18 SECOND exposure to the contagious Indian Covid variant to send seven million into lockdown - as supermarkets place. Vaccination hub is added to Victoria's growing list of Covid exposure sites as Melbourne continues to battle its latest outbreak A Covid-infected person visited Preston City Hall on Gower …

Australia: Fourth round of lockdown in Melbourne as new Covid infection cluster grows
3 years, 7 months ago

Australia: Fourth round of lockdown in Melbourne as new Covid infection cluster grows

India TV News  

Australia’s second-largest city was set to enter its fourth lockdown Thursday as concern grew over the rapid spread of infections from a coronavirus variant. The seven-day lockdown for Melbourne and the rest of Victoria state comes after a new cluster in the city rose to 26 infections, including a person who was in intensive care. Health Minister Greg Hunt described …

Victoria's 'serious' COVID-19 outbreak — here's what we know about the new cases so far
3 years, 7 months ago

Victoria's 'serious' COVID-19 outbreak — here's what we know about the new cases so far

ABC  

The next few days will be crucial to see how many new cases emerge from a cluster of coronavirus cases linked to Melbourne's northern and western suburbs. Genomic sequencing has confirmed the cases in the new cluster are all linked to the Wollert case but the "missing link" has not yet been found. Next, five new cases in the City …

Forced quarantine at Howard Springs not required for high-risk arrivals to NT from Melbourne COVID sites
3 years, 7 months ago

Forced quarantine at Howard Springs not required for high-risk arrivals to NT from Melbourne COVID sites

ABC  

The Northern Territory government says domestic arrivals from Melbourne's highest risk exposure sites must self-isolate and get tested, rather than enter supervised quarantine at Howard Springs, as the Melbourne outbreak grows to 15. Key points: Anyone arriving in the NT from Tier 1 exposure sites in Melbourne must enter self-isolation and get tested Howard Springs is not currently being used …

Victoria's COVID outbreak sees travel restrictions return for Queensland border
3 years, 7 months ago

Victoria's COVID outbreak sees travel restrictions return for Queensland border

ABC  

Victoria is tackling another COVID-19 outbreak, which means some restrictions are back for Queenslanders travelling to and from the southern state. Queensland COVID-19 snapshot In latest reporting period: Deaths: 11 11 New cases: 5,698 Queensland's vaccine rollout: First dose: 93.2 per cent 93.2 per cent Second dose: 92.7 per cent Latest case information from Queensland Health. New exposure sites Contact …

SA border closes to Greater Melbourne, report into Adelaide medi-hotel COVID-19 leak released
3 years, 7 months ago

SA border closes to Greater Melbourne, report into Adelaide medi-hotel COVID-19 leak released

ABC  

South Australia has enforced a hard border with residents of Greater Melbourne, as authorities reveal the man at the centre of Melbourne's COVID-19 outbreak likely caught it through aerosol transmission in Adelaide hotel quarantine. Key points: SA Health authorities released their report into the "potential" medi-hotel transmission The report noted two occasions on May 3 when room doors opened within …

South Australia imposes new border restrictions with Victoria over Melbourne coronavirus cluster
3 years, 7 months ago

South Australia imposes new border restrictions with Victoria over Melbourne coronavirus cluster

ABC  

South Australia has imposed fresh border restrictions in response to Melbourne's coronavirus cases, but SA Health says it is not ready to release its report into a man who stayed in an Adelaide medi-hotel and is potentially linked to the cluster. Key points: Anyone who has been at an exposure site in the relevant time is now banned from entering …

Playford hotel COVID transmission sends Adelaide woman back into isolation after two weeks' quarantine
3 years, 7 months ago

Playford hotel COVID transmission sends Adelaide woman back into isolation after two weeks' quarantine

ABC  

One of the 10 South Australians who has been ordered to quarantine for a second time after staying on the same floor of an Adelaide hotel as two COVID-positive men says she has been vaccinated and took "every precaution" while out in the community. Key points: Georgina Adam has been ordered to self-isolate after two weeks in hotel quarantine She …

Victorian man who tested positive for COVID–19 was on same flight as Adelaide hotel case
3 years, 7 months ago

Victorian man who tested positive for COVID–19 was on same flight as Adelaide hotel case

ABC  

South Australia's Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier says it is most likely a Victorian man, who tested positive to COVID-19 yesterday, caught it while staying in hotel quarantine in Adelaide. Key points: A Victorian man tested positive for COVID–19 after doing hotel quarantine in Adelaide He was on the same flight as another case at the hotel Hotel guests …

SA Health investigating whether man caught coronavirus in medi-hotel
3 years, 7 months ago

SA Health investigating whether man caught coronavirus in medi-hotel

ABC  

South Australian health authorities are investigating whether a man who was released from hotel quarantine in Adelaide and then tested positive for COVID-19 in Melbourne acquired the virus while in isolation. Key points: The man quarantined in the Playford medi-hotel next to a traveller who tested positive SA Health is investigating whether there have been any quarantine or testing breaches …

Exposure sites linked to Victorian Wollert COVID-19 case revealed
3 years, 7 months ago

Exposure sites linked to Victorian Wollert COVID-19 case revealed

ABC  

Victorian health authorities have revealed the potential COVID-19 exposure sites after a man tested positive to COVID-19 at Wollert, north of Melbourne. Tier one exposure sites were listed as: Pact Retail Accessories in Altona North at any time on Thursday, May 6 The Curry Vault Indian restaurant in Melbourne's CBD on Friday, May 7 between 6.30pm and 9.30pm Epping Indiagates …

Victoria records COVID-19 case at Wollert, north of Melbourne, after man leaves SA hotel quarantine
3 years, 7 months ago

Victoria records COVID-19 case at Wollert, north of Melbourne, after man leaves SA hotel quarantine

ABC  

Victorian health authorities have revealed six potential COVID-19 exposure sites, after a man who completed his hotel quarantine in South Australia returned to the state and tested positive. Key points: Follow-up tests confirmed the man's positive COVID-19 diagnosis He left India in mid-April, before completing hotel quarantine in South Australia Potential exposure sites have been listed in the Melbourne CBD, …

Perth lockdown ends as no new COVID community cases recorded
3 years, 8 months ago

Perth lockdown ends as no new COVID community cases recorded

ABC  

The lockdown of the Perth and Peel region has ended after Western Australia recorded no new community spread of coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours. Key points: The interim restrictions include the mandatory wearing of face masks The Premier says the lockdown was the "circuit-breaker" WA needed Two people caught COVID-19 off a man infected in hotel quarantine But …

Perth records positive community-transmitted coronavirus case on day one of lockdown
3 years, 8 months ago

Perth records positive community-transmitted coronavirus case on day one of lockdown

ABC  

The WA Health Department has confirmed a positive COVID test result has been returned from a person within the community on day one of Perth's snap lockdown. Key points: The person had eaten at the Kitchen Inn in Kardinya The Premier had earlier announced no new cases were found A number of restaurants have now been deemed "higher risk" sites …

Victoria declares Perth a COVID-19 red zone, orders recently returned travellers to quarantine immediately
3 years, 8 months ago

Victoria declares Perth a COVID-19 red zone, orders recently returned travellers to quarantine immediately

ABC  

Victoria has declared a red zone across Perth and the Peel region and ordered anyone who has returned to Victoria from those areas since April 17 to get tested and quarantine immediately. Perth and the Peel region have entered a three-day lockdown after a Melbourne man was infected with coronavirus while he was staying in Western Australia's hotel quarantine program. …

NSW warns other states over Sydney COVID-19 quarantine hotel infections
3 years, 8 months ago

NSW warns other states over Sydney COVID-19 quarantine hotel infections

ABC  

Health authorities in NSW have warned several people who could have been exposed to COVID-19 inside a Sydney quarantine hotel have already travelled interstate. Key points: NSW Health says four more return travellers who stayed at the Mercure Hotel need to get tested NSW Health says four more return travellers who stayed at the Mercure Hotel need to get tested …

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