A hotel quarantine worker in Victoria has tested positive for Covid, prompting a scramble to find out which venues the person visited.
The Victorian Department of Health said its public health teams are investigating the new case and close contacts are being notified.
The alert comes after two separate groups of guests in adjacent rooms at Melbourne's Park Royal Hotel tested positive for the more infectious B117 coronavirus variant, first detected in the United Kingdom.
Victoria's Police Minister Lisa Neville, responsible for overseeing the revamped hotel quarantine program, said genomics had shown the infections were identical.
The Victorian Department of Health said its public health teams are investigating the new case and close contacts are being notified