Thirty-one ‘hot hotel’ guests evacuated from Holiday Inn on Flinders Street
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Returned travellers staying in a Melbourne “hot hotel” for Covid-positive cases were being evacuated after a faulty sprinkler system caused significant water damage.
On the fourth day of Victoria’s snap lockdown, the state’s health department confirmed the two new locally acquired cases reported on Tuesday morning were close household contacts of people already infected in the Melbourne airport hotel quarantine outbreaks.
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