WA Health Department confirms two people contracted COVID-19 in hotel quarantine in Perth

Two people staying at a Perth quarantine hotel have contracted COVID-19 while at the facility, the Western Australian Health Department has reported.

The department said the infections were previously reported as being acquired overseas, but genome sequencing data had since revealed the two people caught the virus at the hotel. 

The two guests had been staying at the Mercure Hotel in Perth in rooms opposite each other.

Despite arriving from different countries, the Health Department said they showed the same virus sequence.

Other guests who were staying on the sixth floor at the same time had been released from quarantine after producing negative test results. 

However, those people have now been directed to get tested again and…