Three new coronavirus cases in hotel quarantine in Tasmania

A woman and two children in hotel quarantine in Hobart have tested positive to coronavirus.

The trio are part of a family of four which arrived in Hobart on a repatriation flight from Delhi at the weekend.

The woman’s husband has tested negative for COVID-19.

The cases were announced at a briefing by Premier Peter Gutwein.

He said the woman had developed symptoms but the children were asymptomatic.

“Because of the age of the children and the health of the mother the family will be moved by ambulance to the Royal Hobart Hospital,” Mr Gutwein said.

A clinical assessment will determine if the family will be moved to the Fountainside medi-hotel.

Mr Gutwein said no staff involved in the arrival, transportation or quarantine had been isolated as all…