What we know about the recent Victorian hotel quarantine cases and what’s being done to tackle the issues

Two new positive coronavirus cases among Victoria’s quarantine hotel workers in five days have forced the state’s health authorities to move quickly to impose new rules.

A worker at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport tested positive on Sunday, after visiting several locations while potentially infectious on her days off.

Community-wide coronavirus precautions had already been tightened after a residential support officer at an Australian Open quarantine hotel tested positive to the more-contagious UK strain of the virus on Wednesday.

The 26-year-old man from Noble Park had already left the role and returned a negative test on his last day working at the Grand Hyatt.

Here’s what we know about the recent cases and what’s changing in hotel…