Highest day of quarantine cases all year as officials eye growing overseas cases
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Arrivals from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan constitute the majority of Sydneyâs COVID-19 variant cases over the past month, as health officials monitor the growing number of cases in Latin America and Europe.
Before March, the highest number of variant cases in Sydneyâs hotel quarantine system came from Lebanon, where the UK B.1.1.7 variant remains rife.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has repeated that national hotel quarantine cases are not on the rise.
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NSW Health can advise all of the 15 Port Botany workers who boarded the Inge Kosan have been tested and 11 had returned negative COVID-19 PCR results this morning. It is anticipated the remaining PCR results will be available throughout today. All have also reported using personal protective equipment.
Interviews are underway with two additional port workers to confirm whether they also boarded the ship.
No crew members from the Inge Kosan disembarked the ship during its time in Sydney.
Investigations are also continuing into how COVID-19 transmission occurred between returned travellers who entered Australia on 3 April on the same flight and subsequently stayed in adjacent rooms while in hotel quarantine at the Mercure Hotel on George Street in Sydney’s CBD. The investigation has not identified any further cases of transmission to date.
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2021-04-22 02:35:49 GMT2021-04-22 10:35:49(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SYDNEY, April 22 (Xinhua) Health authorities of two Australian states are investigating a spate of apparent transmissions of COVID-19 between people staying in hotel quarantine.
In the New South Wales (NSW) capital city of Sydney, two family members and a third person who had all been on the same flight earlier this month, tested positive for the variant strain that first identified in South Africa. That two family members had been in a room at the quarantine hotel close to that of the third person.
All three tested negative on their day-two swabs in hotel quarantine, before subsequently testing positive.
NSW latest Covid-19 update as at 22 April miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.