A nurse and a police officer working at a Melbourne quarantine hotel have returned positive preliminary COVID-19 tests, leading to 41 other workers being stood down while they await their own test results.
The Victorian government has yet to publicly announce the suspected transmission between returning travellers to staff at the Holiday Inn hotel.
But documents seen by The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald show the nurse and police officer returned positive saliva swabs over the weekend.
The Holiday Inn on Flinders, one of two “hot” hotels that house coronavirus-positive patients.Credit:Luis Ascui
The Department of Health and Human Service’s outbreak squad visited the hotel on Sunday and areas where the nurse and police officer worked have been cleaned.
