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Another potential COVID-19 spread in hotel quarantine is under investigation by NSW Health.
The three returned travellers, two of whom are related, all tested positive to the South African strain of the virus.
All three people arrived in Australia on April 3 on the same flight, and were quarantined next door to each other at the Mercure Hotel on George Street in the Sydney CBD.
COVID-19 is suspected to have spread between quarantined people in Sydney s Mercure Hotel.(Google Maps)
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Western Australian health authorities are investigating two new cases of COVID-19 acquired in hotel quarantine.
The state health department on Wednesday night confirmed the virus was transmitted in quarantine, saying the two sets of guests with the same strain arrived from different countries at different times.
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The guests flew into Perth from different countries(Getty)
In Perth, recent guests from the same floor as the transmission will be re-tested and those who were in the immediately adjacent rooms will be self-quarantined for 14 days. The Department can confirm the virus was transmitted in hotel quarantine at the Mercure Hotel Perth, as two sets of guests, in rooms opposite each other, had the same sequence of virus â despite arriving from different countries at different times, the WA Health Department said in a statement.