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 February 4. The woman is working with contact tracers who have already identified a number of potential exposure sites in Melbourne’s west. Authorities are also contacting Holiday Inn Airport workers and other primary close contacts, who are being told to immediately get tested and then isolate for 14 days. Testing capacity at nearby exposure sites will be scaled up, with increased opening hours, additional staff and new pop-up sites to be confirmed. It comes after a hotel quarantine worker at Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt tested positive for the infectious UK strain of the virus last week. …
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