An inquiry into Victoria's COVID-19 hotel quarantine program has heard '99 per cent' of cases of the state's second wave can be traced back to two hotels.
Almost all of Victoria's second wave of COVID-19 cases can be traced back to overseas travellers in two hotels, an inquiry into the quarantine program has heard.
Meanwhile, some 46 workers from the Stamford Plaza and their close contacts were found to have caught COVID-19 from a man who returned from overseas on 1 June and a couple who returned on 11 June.Having analysed the genomic sequencing of 5395 active cases, Dr Alpren said 3,594 could be linked to the Rydges hotel."It is likely that a high proportion, approximately 99 per cent of current cases of COVID-19 in Victoria have arisen from Rydges or Stamford," Dr Alpren said.
"It is likely that the large majority - I said in my statement approximately 90 per cent or more - of COVID-19 infections in Victoria can be traced to the Rydges Hotel.""That's not to say that there are no other transmission events that could be there. But because there are very few people now coming into Victoria who potentially offer new sources of importation of the virus, it is less and less likely," Dr Alpren said.
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