Coronavirus lockdown prompts questions over how hotel quarantine system failed
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The security guard contracted the virus after working at the Sheraton Four Points hotel.
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WA authorities have defended Perth s hotel quarantine system despite a security guard testing positive to COVID-19 amid criticism from the state s peak doctor s union.
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Previous hotel quarantine system reviews did not identify problems
How the hotel worker contracted COVID is not yet clear
After nearly 10 months with no community cases, a security guard in his twenties contracted COVID-19 after working at Sheraton Four Points in Perth, throwing the majority of the state s population into a five-day lockdown.
Perth hotel quarantine guard who triggered WA coronavirus lockdown has mutant UK strain
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Mark McGowan says 66 close contacts of the hotel guard are being tested and are in quarantine.
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A hotel security guard who sparked a mass lockdown in Western Australia has contracted the highly contagious UK variant strain of COVID-19, authorities have revealed.
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Tests have come back negative for 13 high-risk contacts
A Perth CBD deli has been added to the list of sites the guard visited