General
NSW COVID-19 case ‘more likely’ to have caught virus while in quarantine at Sydney’s Sofitel Wentworth
Experts have described as an “extreme outlier” a person who tested positive for COVID-19 two days after leaving hotel quarantine, as authorities probe whether they were actually infected in Sydney.
Key points:
- A false negative or a hotel quarantine leak could be why the traveller tested positive after two weeks
- Only 2.5 per cent of people with COVID-19 will test negative 16 days after they catch it
- Dr Stanaway said there was still uncertainty about the incubation period’s end point
The infection, which was revealed late on Sunday night, was picked up on a mandatory test for returned overseas travellers, 16 days after the person had arrived in Australia from South America.
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