Another concerning spike in hotel quarantine Covid cases has sparked fears the virus will seep out into the community. The spike in cases comes amid fears India's 'double mutant' strain could spread into Australian cities from the state's hotel quarantine system. In the last four days, 44 new infections have been detected in returned travellers quarantining in hotels across New South WalesEight cases were recorded on Monday, 12 on Tuesday, and Wednesday saw nine new infectionsThe sudden surge in hotel quarantine cases has prompted renewed calls by experts for an overhaul of the nation's hotel quarantine system. 'It needs to be 100 per cent effective to maintain our hard-earned status of having zero community COVID cases. His paper says that between November and mid January 'approximately 1 in 200 hotel quarantine cases led to infections outside the system' causing outbreaks in Sydney, Melbourne Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth.

Source: The Nation April 29, 2021 04:08 UTC