Six Victorians isolating after potential exposure to COVID-19 in Adelaide hotel quarantine

Six people linked to an interstate quarantine hotel have been told to isolate in Victoria over fears they could have been potentially exposed.

Six Victorians are now isolating after potentially being exposed to COVID-19 while quarantining at the same Adelaide hotel where a Victorian man is thought to have caught it.

The health department revealed on Thursday the six were identified as having recently left level three of the Playford Hotel during the potential transmission period.

The six have all been contacted and are now undertaking 14 days quarantine since departing the Adelaide hotel. They were all being urgently tested on Thursday.

The Victorian man who caught the virus in hotel quarantine in Adelaide had completed his isolation there after returning to Australia from India via the Maldives on April 19.

The man, aged in his 30s, returned to his Wollert home in Melbourne’s north on May 4 and developed symptoms four days later.

People are urged to get tested if they have symptoms. Picture : NCA NewsWire / Ian Currie

He tested positive on Tuesday.

All three of his primary household contacts have so far tested negative.

Public health teams are continuing working to identify, test and trace people who’ve been in contact with the man.

Sites at Melbourne, Epping and Altona North are among the exposure sites, as well as a number of train stations and train services.

Victoria recorded no new local cases on Thursday.

despite 84 people being deemed close contacts of the man.

Acting Premier James Merlino said on Thursday that 67 people who came in contact

hadn’t contracted the virus after coming into contact with a Melbourne man who caught the virus in hotel quarantine in Adelaide.

He said a further 48 people were expected to receive their results within the next 24 to 36 hours.

One of the exposure sites was the Curry Vault restaurant in the CBD, where 42 patrons and staff were identified as primary close contacts.

So far, 34 negative test results have so far been returned.

SA Health has also ordered 10 South Australians who stayed on the same floor as the Victorian man in hotel quarantine to complete a further two weeks in isolation.

A total of 7,955 COVID-19 vaccination doses were administered on Wednesday by state-commissioned services across Victoria.