A hotel quarantine worker at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport has tested positive to COVID-19. The woman tested positive on February 7 after she completed a shift as an authorised officer at the hotel, the Department of Health confirmed in an alert just before midnight. She had previously tested negative after a shift on…

Hundreds of Victorians have been forced to self-isolate after a hotel quarantine worker linked to the Australian Open tested positive to COVID-19. The 26-year-old man from Noble Park in the city’s southeast returned a positive test on February 3, five days after he completed his last shift as a resident support officer at the Grand…

Spanish world No.13 Roberto Bautista Agut has apologised after he compared his Australian Open hotel quarantine experience to prison. Bautista Agut criticised the Victorian government’s quarantine requirements in an interview with Israel’s Sport 5 television station, saying the lockdown was like being in “jail”. “It’s the same (as being in prison), but with WiFi,” the…

Victoria has gone two weeks without recording a locally acquired case of COVID-19, although three more people in hotel quarantine have tested positive to the virus. It is unclear if the three cases are associated with the contingent in town ahead of the Australian Open, which begins on February 8. The two unnamed players and…

Victoria has gone two weeks without recording a locally acquired case of COVID-19, although three more people in hotel quarantine have tested positive to the virus. It is unclear if the three cases are associated with the contingent in town ahead of the Australian Open, which begins on Feb. 8. The two unnamed players and…

The Australian Open has been hit by another setback as a fifth person tested positive for coronavirus, forcing 25 more players into hotel quarantine. A total of 72 players are now isolating in their hotel rooms ahead of the tournament. The fifth person tested positive on the night of January 17 and they were on…

As NSW records six locally acquired cases of COVID-19 Premier Gladys Berejiklian is urging Victoria to reopen its border with the state. Five of the six cases were household contacts of the western Sydney man reported on January 16 while investigations continue into the source of his infection. NSW Health believes it is likely to…

NSW has issued an alert for anyone who has been at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane, fearing a highly contagious strain of COVID-19 may have spread across the border. The quarantine hotel is linked to six cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 and has been closed by the Queensland government for deep cleaning….

The first of 1200 international tennis players, support crew and officials are expected to arrive in Melbourne for the Australian Open, as the state records no new COVID-19 cases. Victoria has now gone eight consecutive days without a local or interstate-acquired coronavirus case. It also reported no cases in hotel quarantine. Some 16,533 tests results…

Tens of thousands of cricket fans and Boxing Day shoppers are being asked to get tested and self-isolate, following Victoria’s first mystery COVID-19 case in more than two months. Health authorities are scrambling to find the source, with a man in his 30s catching the virus after attending the sales at Chadstone Shopping Centre on…