Here’s how Adelaide’s new medi-hotel will work

As South Australia records a third active case of coronavirus in hotel quarantine, health authorities are set to take charge of a dedicated facility to house those who have tested positive to COVID-19.

Here’s a look at how it will work.

What has been happening in hotel quarantine in SA?

Medi-hotels had been running with relative success in Adelaide’s CBD, until last November.

Dubbed the “Parafield cluster”, the state was sent into a three-day circuit-breaker lockdown following community transmission of the virus via medi-hotel employees.

Since then, Greater Brisbane experienced its own lockdown after a cleaner at a quarantine hotel tested positive for the contagious UK strain and large parts of Western Australia were sent into lockdown after…