A security guard who shared a house with an aged care worker has been identified as the first formal link made between Victoria’s calamitous hotel quarantine program and the spread of coronavirus to an aged care home.
The state Health Department has revealed an infection went from the Rydges on Swanston hotel to Embracia Aged Care in June.
Embracia managing director Sarah McKenzie said: “Our staff member lived with a female security guard who had worked across these quarantine hotels.” In a media release in June, the DHHS announced new cases of coronavirus from the Rydges hotel. Later, it noted that a staff member at Embracia Aged Care in Reservoir had also tested positive.
She said after defeating an outbreak that began in July, her Avondale Heights home on Tuesday last week had a positive test in a staff member. “They came to us in July and asked us to help them contact trace one of our residents. That resident had died in our home. But they died in 2019, before the pandemic existed.”
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