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COVID live updates: NSW Health officials race to find source of infection of hotel quarantine security guard who tested positive
‘It adds a risk that is simply not necessary’
The NSW Opposition wants hotel quarantine security guards to be employed on a full-time basis at a single location in order to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus in the community.
It comes as a 47-year-old guard, who had been working at two quarantine hotels in Sydney, tested positive to the virus on Saturday night — the first new case in NSW in almost two months.
Labor says the risk of a quarantine security guard spreading COVID-19 in the community would be reduced if they were employed to work at a single location.
Opposition health spokesman Ryan Park says quarantine hotel guards work in one of the highest risk areas of the quarantine system and should be protected.
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