A false-negative test result from a Holiday Inn hotel worker put Victorian authorities off the scent of a family function where COVID-19 spread into the community. A three-year-old child and a woman in her 50s were the latest locally acquired infections reported on Sunday, the second day of Victoria’s five-day lockdown. Health Minister Martin Foley confirmed both are linked to the Holiday Inn cluster, bringing its total number of cases to 16. The pair, who are from separate households, were at the private family function on Sydney Road, Coburg, on Feb. 6. It was attended by 38 people including a COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria worker at the Melbourne Airport hotel who tested positive on Wednesday. “It is a notable event and that is now the lead line of our investigation,” COVID-19 testing chief Jeroen Weimar told reporters. The female worker returned a “false negative” the day after the function, but further analysis of …