NSW quarantine hotel worker tests positive to coronavirus

Health authorities are racing to identify the source of infection of a security guard who has tested positive for coronavirus.

The positive case breaks NSW’s 55-day streak of no locally acquired coronavirus cases.

The 47-year-old works mostly weekends at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney’s CBD and the Mantra Hotel in Haymarket.

Under the state’s routine surveillance of quarantine staff, workers are tested after each shift.

The man tested positive late last night after testing as part of that scheme, and a second test confirmed the result early this morning.

The man had previously tested negative following his most recent shifts on March 5 and 6 and had reported having no symptoms.