Victoria’s Department of Health has confirmed nearly all of Victoria’s second wave stemmed from one Melbourne hotel. An epidemiologist has told the hotel quarantine inquiry more than 90 per cent of current cases can be traced back to one family staying at a Rydges Hotel in May. The rest of the cases are likely linked to Melbourne’s Stamford Plaza Hotel.
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In This Story: Melbourne
Melbourne is the coastal capital of the southeastern Australian state of Victoria. Population: 4.936 million (2018).