Melbourne man’s COVID-19 diagnosis may be linked to food delivery at Adelaide medi-hotel

Health authorities have revealed the unusual way that COVID-19 may have spread at an Adelaide medi-hotel.

Health officials have suggested COVID-19 transmission at a medi-hotel in Adelaide may have happened when guests opened their doors to collect food.

A Victorian man is believed to have contracted the virus from a fellow traveller while quarantining at the Playford Hotel before going home to Melbourne.

The two men had been on the same flight, but the spread was not believed to have happened on the plane.

CCTV footage has been reviewed but no breaches have been identified.

South Australia’s deputy chief public health officer Emily Kirkpatrick said investigators were examining whether aerosol transmission played a part.

The Victorian man stayed at the Playford Hotel in Adelaide. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Brenton Edwards

“Over the last six days, we’ve been able to piece together exactly what’s occurred on that particular floor and there has been no clear indication in terms of breaches,” she told reporters on Monday.

“We’re particularly looking at food deliveries, interval of time between doors opening and positioning of food delivery outside of rooms.

“Of course, there’s always that background hypothesis that this could be a very long incubation time.”

Meanwhile, a second mass vaccination clinic has opened in Mount Gambier.