Meanwhile,a nurse and a police officer working at a Melbourne quarantine hotel have been given the all-clear after initially returning positive preliminary COVID-19 tests.

The positive preliminary saliva swabs from the nurse and police officers led to 41 other workers at the Holiday Inn on Flinders hotel being stood down while they awaited their own test results.

The Department of Health and Human Service’s outbreak squad visited the hotel on Sunday and areas where the nurse and police officer worked have been cleaned.

Health authorities confirmed on Monday that the pair had subsequently tested negative.

The Alfred Health nurse worked in a"front of house"role at the hotel and was responsible for checking temperatures on those arriving there. She wore full personal protective equipment and a face shield.

The Victoria Police officer worked as a floor monitor.

Alfred Health stood down 36 staff at the hotel as a precaution,including 33 nurses and three cleaning staff,and at least four other Victoria Police members were put into isolation after dining with the officer who returned the positive saliva swab.

The Holiday Inn in Melbourne's CBD is being used as a"hot"hotel to quarantine COVID-19 positive returning travellers.

Transmission of the virus between returning travellers and private security guards in May and June last year sparked Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19,causing hundreds of deaths and months of hard lockdowns.

Mr Andrews said there would be no special treatment for tennis players travelling to Melbourne for the Australian Open,due to start on February 8.

At least 72 players and dozens more staff are confined to their rooms in hotel quarantine after athird charter flight into Melbourne was linked to a positive COVID-19 case.

Some players havereacted angrily to the news that they are unable to leave their rooms to train and world No.1 Novak Djokovic has reportedly written to Australian Open tournament director Craig Tileyasking,among other demands,for players in hard lockdown to be released early.

"People were told what the rules were. The rules will not be changing,because the public health advice is where those rules came from,"Mr Andrews said.

"I know that there's been a bit of chatter from a number of players about the rules. Well,the rules apply to them as they apply to everybody else,and they were all briefed on that before they came,and that was the condition on which they came.

"There's no special treatment here because the virus doesn't treat you specially,so neither do we."