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Coronavirus lockdown prompts questions over how hotel quarantine system failed
WA authorities have defended Perth’s hotel quarantine system despite a security guard testing positive to COVID-19 amid criticism from the state’s peak doctor’s union.
Key points:
- Two investigations have been launched into the COVID infection
- Previous hotel quarantine system reviews did not identify problems
- How the hotel worker contracted COVID is not yet clear
After nearly 10 months with no community cases, a security guard in his twenties contracted COVID-19 after working at Sheraton Four Points in Perth, throwing the majority of the state’s population into a five-day lockdown.
He was working on the same floor as a positive UK variant case and authorities now understand he caught that strain which is understood to be 50-70 per cent more…
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