Australia news live: Melbourne quarantine hotel worker tests positive for Covid; NSW issues alert over returned traveller case

Good morning, Matilda Boseley right here to deliver you all of the vital news this stunning Monday morning (though as we will see, it’s in all probability extra stunning should you don’t reside in Sydney or Melbourne).

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So first up, I hate to interrupt it to you but we have some Covid-19 cases:

A hotel quarantine worker on the Holiday Inn close to Melbourne airport has examined positive, elevating additional considerations over whether or not this technique is match for goal now the extremely contagious Covid variants are spreading all over the world.

The lady labored on the hotel on Sunday morning earlier than creating techniques. She was rapidly examined and returned a positive outcome.

This got here after already testing destructive on the finish of her shift on Thursday.

Other staff on the hotel and a variety of shut contacts have been quarantined and a variety of publicity web site alerts have been issued.

This comes just some days after a worker on the Grand Hyatt, which housed quarantine tennis gamers and employees, examined positive for Covid-19, prompting the reintroduction of a variety of restrictions.

Melbourne is ready to host the primary day of the Australian Open at present, so protected to say the stakes are fairly excessive.

And in NSW authorities have launched non-compulsory “day 16” testing for abroad travellers after somebody examined positive for Covid after their two-week quarantine interval.

A well being alert has been issued for a Sydney cafe and venues within the Illawarra, together with a restaurant at Brighton Le Sands in Sydney’s south, a hotel and a seaside in Wollongong and the Illawarra – I’ll deliver you the complete checklist quickly.

NSW Health says anybody who visited the venues across the similar time ought to get examined instantly and self-isolate.

The individual examined positive on the sixteenth day after returning to Australia and returned two destructive tests throughout two weeks in hotel quarantine.

A press release launched by NSW Health in a single day mentioned the individual had a low stage of an infection.

Investigations thus far recommend the an infection was probably acquired abroad and there’s no indication at this stage that there was transmission within the hotel quarantine setting.

I’ll deliver you all of the updates on these circumstances (and protection of the inevitable press conferences) right here this morning so stick round.

OK, let’s leap into the day.