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NSW records another COVID-19 case linked to Sydney’s Sofitel Wentworth
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed another COVID-19 case has emerged from the Sofitel Wentworth hotel in Sydney.
The returned traveller is currently quarantined on the 11th floor of the hotel, the same floor where a security guard who tested positive on the weekend worked.
NSW Health believes the person didn’t have the virus when they arrived and contracted it once inside the hotel.
The guard who tested positive on the weekend has the same strain of the UK variant of COVID-19 as another returned traveller also staying on that floor.
Ms Berejiklian said the new case “doesn’t change anything in Sydney” and an easing of restrictions will still be announced later today.
“The threat to the community is negligible because they…
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