Three sick children have reportedly been taken to hospital from a Sydney hotel where a number of people have been placed in quarantine after returning to Australia.
They were transferred by ambulance from the Hilton hotel in central Sydney at about 10pm on Tuesday to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital"for COVID-19 treatment", the ABC reported.
Videos shot outside the hotel show three children on stretchers wearing protective face masks being wheeled out of the hotel by paramedics.The emergency comes ahead of the release of the first group of 288 Australians quarantined at the nearby Swisshotel this morning, under a police operation to ensure their departure is quick and seamless.
This group arrived in Australia on March 26 and have undertaken a mandatory 14-day self-isolation, to protect the community from the coronavirus.After today's operation, police will plan for further hotel departures with some 3000 Australian residents expected to come out of hotel isolation over the next week.
Meanwhile, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says social distancing rules to limit the spread of COVID-19 will stay in place until a vaccine is found.While the number of new cases in NSW continues to stabilise, authorities are still concerned about the 406 locally-acquired cases with an unknown source. The latest deaths include a 90-year-old male resident of the Opal Care Bankstown aged care facility and an 87-year-old woman who was a passenger on the Ruby Princess cruise ship.
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