The Holiday Inn quarantine hotel at Melbourne Airport has reportedly been shut down immediately after several coronavirus leaks over the past week.
The state government has quickly moved to close the facility after three locally acquired cases were linked to the hotel.
Several eyewitnesses called into 3AW on Wednesday morning, reporting seeing quarantine guests being led from the hotel by police on Wednesday morning and onto a waiting SkyBus.
COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria confirmed the closure to NCA NewsWire.
A CQV spokeswoman said the Holiday Inn would be closed until further notice for “terminal cleaning” and detailed contact tracing and investigations were underway.
About 135 staff were stood down from the Holiday Inn on Tuesday night and told to isolate for 14 days.
Three local cases have now been linked to the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn with two confirmed late on Tuesday.
The health department on Tuesday confirmed a second worker at the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn quarantine site and a returned traveller who has already completed quarantine tested positive to COVID-19.
“CQV is implementing strict infection prevention and control measures after a hotel quarantine worker, who last worked at the Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport on February 4, tested positive for the virus,” the spokeswoman said.
“All staff and residents at the hotel during the exposure period of January 27 and February 9 are considered primary close contacts and need to quarantine.
“(About) 135 staff across all programs at the hotel were stood down last night and instructed to quarantine for 14 days at home and get retested.”
CQV has also informed 48 quarantine guests at the hotel that they were also considered primary close contacts.
CQV started transferring the affected guests to the Pullman Melbourne hotel from 8am on Wednesday to quarantine for an “extended number of days”.
“The transfer of the residents will be sequenced and co-ordinated, and there will be careful management of infection prevention and control measures,” the spokeswoman said.
“This is a changing, hyper-infectious virus, which means our quarantine program is constantly reviewed on the basis of expert advice.
“Following recent positive coronavirus cases, CQV has introduced a suite of measures in quarantine hotels including full face shields for staff to wear with masks, staggered mealtimes for residents and empty rooms between large resident groups.”
Victoria Police and Australian Defence Force personnel have been tasked to provide security at the hotel perimeter.
Premier Daniel Andrews is due to speak to the media at 10.30am.
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Victoria has recorded a new case of COVID-19 – a resident of the quarantine facility Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport – who tested positive after completing her 14-day period.
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