Covid 19 coronavirus: New case of hotel quarantine transmission in Perth
By Angie Raphaelnews.com.au·
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Save Queues at a pop-up Covid test site in Melbourne on May 27. Photo / Getty Images
A new case of coronavirus has been transmitted from one traveller to another in hotel quarantine in Perth.
It happened at the Pan Pacific hotel in the CBD after a man from Colombia arrived in Western Australia via the United States on May 21.
Chief health officer Andy Robertson said
that man tested positive for the virus on May 23.
A man in the adjoining room, who had arrived on May 16, was tested on day 13 of his quarantine stay and also returned a positive result.