Morrison calls for snap Melbourne lockdown
Key Points
- Melbourne records two new cases linked to Holiday Inn, cluster has grown to eight cases. South Australia slams border shut to Melbourne
- James Packer’s private company has withdrawn from the Crown Board as two key lieutenants resign.
- Masks will no longer be mandatory in NSW as restrictions begin to ease from Friday.
- The Commonwealth Bank is among eight companies reporting results today. Follow the latest on Markets Live here.
Two new cases linked to Holiday Inn
Melbourne’s Holiday Inn cluster has grown to eight after two more people tested positive to COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon.
The cases are a worker and a returned traveller who completed hotel quarantine on February 7.
The growing cluster has prompted South Australia to slam its borders shut to greater Melbourne as of midnight on Wednesday.
Only essential travellers, South Australians returning from Melbourne or people shifting permanently to SA will be allowed in to SA from greater Melbourne under the new arrangements, but they may have to undergo 14 days of quarantine.
It comes as the Australian Medical Association warned an airborne outbreak at the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport had blown open cracks in the hotel quarantine system.
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton, said health authorities believe the use of a nebuliser by a COVID-19-infected guest is behind the spread at the Holiday Inn, where two workers and a returned traveller have been infected.
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