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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian state of Victoria is considering making N95 masks mandatory for quarantine hotels and will also ban nebuliser machines for inhaling medication at them, after a cluster of three cases was linked to a hotel.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: People depart a hotel where tennis players and personnel preparing for the Australian Open were tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) following the news a quarantine hotel worker tested positive in Melbourne, Australia, February 4, 2021. REUTERS\/Loren Elliott<\/figcaption>

The first case linked to an infected traveller in quarantine at the Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport was a hotel worker with two more cases reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The hotel has been shut until further notice for cleaning and contact tracing.<\/p>\n

Victoria state chief health officer Brett Sutton said the working hypothesis was the new cases came from \u201can exposure event that involved a medical device called a nebuliser and it vaporises medication or liquid into a fine mist\u201d.<\/p>\n

The mist can remain suspended in the air for several minutes, Sutton said.<\/p>\n

Sutton said the returning citizen, who is in intensive care, had used the nebuliser and inadvertently passed on the disease to three other people, including another hotel guest.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s premier, Daniel Andrews, said nebulisers must be kept out of hotel quarantine rooms while quarantine commissioner, Emma Cassar, said a requirement for N95 masks, which offer greater protection than ordinary surgical masks, in quarantine hotels was being considered.<\/p>\n

Australia has been among the world\u2019s most successful countries in handling the novel coronavirus, largely because of decisive lockdowns and borders sealed to all but a trickle of travellers, with some 22,000 cases and 909 deaths.<\/p>\n

But its quarantine hotels, where all international arrivals have to spend two weeks, have proved to be a weak link in its defences with the cluster in Melbourne the latest to emerge from one.<\/p>\n

Neighbouring New South Wales, which recorded no locally acquired cases on Wednesday, relaxed rules around mandatory mask wearing on Wednesday while raising the limit on public gatherings.<\/p>\n

Other states also maintained their runs of no local cases.<\/p>\n

(Graphic: Global COVID tracker – here)<\/p>\n

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