A medical device could be to blame for a COVID-19 outbreak at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport, which now totals three cases. The two latest cases confirmed…
Two more Covid cases have been linked to the Holiday Inn hotel in Melbourne, bringing the number of locally-acquired cases to five, and leading doctors to warn the “more infectious UK strain has blown open cracks in our hotel quarantine system”. The two new cases are a worker at the hotel and a person who had completed quarantine on 7 February and been out in the community. Both were identified as close contacts of previous cases at the hotel..
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Two more Covid cases have been linked to the Holiday Inn hotel in Melbourne, bringing the number of locally-acquired cases to five, and leading doctors to warn the “more infectious UK strain has blown open cracks in our hotel quarantine system”. The two new cases are a worker at the hotel and a person who had completed quarantine on 7 February and been out in the community. Both were identified as close contacts of previous cases at the hotel..
How a nebuliser can give coronavirus millions more droplets to hitch a ride on
By national medical reporter Sophie Scott and the Specialist Reporting Team s Emily Clark
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FebFebruary 2021 at 3:43am
Authorities say a nebuliser is the likely source of transmission among some of the cases at the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn.
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A guest in Melbourne s hotel quarantine system was positive with COVID-19 when they used a nebuliser, believe experts, who say every second they used the machine they would have been releasing up to 10,000 times more aerosol particles than if they were breathing normally.