A returned traveller staying at Perth's Pan Pacific hotel has acquired COVID-19 from a guest in an adjoining room, WA Health has confirmed.
West Australian authorities are investigating another COVID-19 hotel quarantine breach after a traveller at Perth's Pan Pacific was infected by a neighbouring guest.
All security guards who worked on the floor during the period of infection have tested negative in the last four days and all are vaccinated. A family of three staying opposite one of the men remain in quarantine and have been moved to a room further away. "In the future, this would be less likely to occur because we would have had a different configuration of rooms," she said.
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