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Brad Hazzard says hotel worker COVID-19 case likely originated from United States airline crew
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says genomic sequencing has confirmed the COVID-19 strain found in a Sydney hotel worker originated from the United States, likely from a self-isolating airline crew.
Key points:
- The hotel worker case broke NSW’s run of 26 days without a local case
- NSW Health has confirmed the case was picked up in a quarantine hotel, not from the local community
- Health Minister Brad Hazzard said it was a “massive relief”
Mr Hazzard said the Minto woman’s infection was something of a “twilight zone case” because of the mystery of the source, but pathology results returned on Friday afternoon confirmed its origins.
He said the results were “extremely reassuring”.
“We had an air crew who were self-isolating in the Novotel,…
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