Two people staying at a Perth quarantine hotel have contracted COVID-19 while at the facility, the Western Australian Health Department has reported.
Key points:
- The two positive cases have been in quarantine at the Mercure Hotel in Perth
- Genomic sequencing shows they have the same COVID-19 variant
- This is despite the returned travellers arriving from different countries
The 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.
The two guests had been staying at the Mercure Hotel in Perth in rooms opposite each other.
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.
An investigation into how the transmission occurred has been launched.
The department said no staff working at the hotel had recorded positive results.
Hotel quarantine staff are required to undergo daily testing under rules brought in after a security guard tested positive for COVID-19 in January, sending Perth and the South West into a five-day lockdown.
The case also triggered a ban on quarantine hotel security staff having second jobs.
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