Hotel quarantine to end in Victoria as purpose-built quarantine hub opens

Lodge quarantine will come to an finish in Victoria by the top of March because the state's quarantine program is moved to the new Victorian Quarantine Hub.

The primary 250 beds on the purpose-built Victorian Quarantine Hub will open later this month to accommodate unvaccinated arrivals and other people with COVID-19 who're unable to securely isolate at house.

The state's medi-hotels will even cease working later this month as a result of falling variety of new COVID-19 circumstances, the state authorities has introduced.

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A lodge quarantine employee in Melbourne has examined optimistic to coronavirus. The girl works as an authorised officer on the Vacation Inn at Melbourne Airport.(9)

Greater than 70,000 Australian residents have stayed in lodge quarantine in Victoria since December 2020.

About 500 workers have been educated in an infection prevention and management to work within the new quarantine hub, which is positioned on Donnybrook Highway, Mickleham in Melbourne's north west.

Police Minister Lisa Neville mentioned lots of the workers from lodge quarantine can be redeployed to the hub.

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"The teachings discovered in lodge quarantine will not go to waste. with a whole lot of current workers transitioning over to the hub in coming weeks," she mentioned.

Capability on the hub is predicted to develop past the preliminary 250 beds by the top of April.