2021-02-09 20:19:47 | Australia news live: NSW issues alert for Melbourne Holiday Inn guests after two more Covid cases | Australia news

The chair of the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority, Philip Crawford, is due to speak at 10am.

What are Crown’s options? Anne Davies has this explainer:

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Both New South Wales and Victoria are keeping an eye on potential spread from the Holiday Inn near Melbourne airport. Victoria yesterday recorded two new cases of transmission related to the hotel. On Sunday, one hotel quarantine worker first tested positive, and on Tuesday afternoon, another worker and one former guest also tested positive.

NSW also issued an alert for any of its residents who were at the Holiday Inn, between 27 January and 9 February, on any floor of the hotel. Previously, only people who were on the third floor had to isolate.

Late yesterday, Eddie McGuire also resigned as Collingwood football club president, and James Packer’s Crown casino was denied a casino license in NSW, raising huge questions over the already partially built Barangaroo tower in Sydney.

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