The Victorian government will bolster its hotel quarantine program with the addition of more hotels and a senior manager as it prepares to facilitate more overseas travellers. The move comes after the Victorian government initiated new quarantine measures for flight crews, and interstate returnees who are returning from COVID-19 hotspots in Australia. Currently, the hotel quarantine program, which restarted early December, has been operating at only half its capacity. Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the breach of the highly-infectious UK strain from hotel quarantine demonstrated why the system has to be taken as “seriously and assiduously” as possible. “Those interfaces with returned flight crew members and returning Australians poses are the biggest risk to stay ahead of this virus,” Foley said at a press conference on Sunday. An estimated four of Melbourne’s quarantine hotels are used in the program each with a capacity to quarantine over 1,000 people. Currently, around 2,240 are …