Morning mail: new Covid cases, arts courses in demand, Myanmar protests

Monday: Another hotel quarantine workers tests positive in Melbourne as a low level' case puts NSW on alert Plus: How good is Australia really?

Good morning, it's Imogen Dewey bringing you news of more coronavirus cases and a scandal for the Queen on Monday 8 February - the week of Donald Trump's impeachment trial.

A second hotel quarantine worker has tested positive in Melbourne (where plans to bring in more defence personnel to help with the program were derailed last night). The infected woman is working with contact tracers, and authorities have named three potential exposure sites in Melbourne's west. Just as top medical experts turn their eyes to a national proposal to test returned travellers two days after exiting their fortnight of hotel quarantine, a Wollongong resident, who returned from overseas, has tested positive to Covid-19 ... two days after leaving hotel quarantine. Nine Sydney businesses have been fined for Covid breaches. And health authorities in South Australia, where testing numbers are dropping by thousands, are urging people to stay vigilant.