REVEALED: 90% of Victoria’s coronavirus cases can be traced back to just ONE hotel – after COVID-19 spread to staff during the bungled quarantine program
Around 90 per cent of Victoria’s second-wave coronavirus cases can be traced back to a single quarantine hotel, an inquiry heard today.
A member of a family of four quarantining at Melbourne’s Rydges on Swanston hotel first developed symptoms on May 9, according to Department of Health and Human Services epidemiologist Charles Alpren.
The other three became symptomatic three days later.
On May 25 three people working at the hotel fell ill before a further 17 people tested positive.
‘They were either people working in the hotel in a range of roles, or household or social contacts of staff members,” Dr Alpren said.
‘Approximately 90 per cent or more of current COVID-19 infections in Victoria can be traced to the Rydges hotel’.
Staff inside a hotel in Melbourne are seen moving luggage for guests in quarantine on June 25