Melbourne Airport cafe listed as exposure site, as Victoria works to tackle Holiday Inn outbreak

Anyone who visited a cafe at Melbourne’s airport during a seven-and-a-half-hour period on Tuesday has been urged to get tested and isolate for 14 days, as Victorian authorities try to tackle a growing outbreak linked to a quarantine hotel.

There are now 13 cases linked to the Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport hotel, and hundreds of people have been considered close contacts.

Five of those cases were announced yesterday, and included four household primary close contacts of previous cases.

Victoria’s Department of Health added Brunetti cafe, at Melbourne Airport’s Terminal 4, to its list of Tier 1 exposure sites late last night.

Anyone who visited the cafe between 4:45am and 1:15pm on Tuesday has been asked to get tested and remain isolated for…