Two people staying at a Perth quarantine hotel have contracted COVID-19 while at the facility, the Western Australian Health Department has reported.Genomic sequencing shows they have the same COVID-19 variantThe department said the infections were previously reported as being acquired overseas, but genome sequencing data had since revealed the two people caught the virus at the hotel.Despite arriving from different countries, the Health Department said they showed the same virus sequence.
Other guests who were staying on the sixth floor at the same time had been released from quarantine after producing negative test results. However, those people have now been directed to get tested again and self-isolate until they are given the all-clear by the public health team. "Guests who were previously in the rooms immediately adjacent will be self-quarantined for 14 days since their last potential exposure and tested," the Health Department said in a statement.The department said no staff working at the hotel had recorded positive results.
I can already see drvyom head shaking
When are they going to fix those guidelines on ventilation. Dinosaurs need to accept the evidence on aerosols and act on it.
It makes sense to quarantine them prior to departure.
Do they have symptoms? What PCR CT rate where the diagnoses made? Transmission?
So McGowan simultaneously wants to continue all OS arrivals being in hotel quarantine rather than home isolation, yet if these arrivals were at home they wouldn't have contracted the virus.
Great that the system is working.
They need to put in heppa filters and proper air filtration in these quarantine hotels, hello COVID is Airborne
time to close the borders between WA and the hotels
an_leavy More Glaven1994
Ya it’s a pandemic stop all flights from India now
That mercury hotel looks very scrubby. Time to replace the filters and use high tech ventilating systems if you can't open up the windows.
Great work Slomo
Scatmo & Hunt have the Responsibility under s51 Constitution & Authority under the Biosecurity Act 2015! Island Resorts & Mining Camps can be used for Quarantine (Empty anyway) All have Balconies! Stranded Aussies Home Minimal Outbreaks from Quarantine