Our Aussie leaders aren’t seeing eye-to-eye on how best to handle the pandemic – and it appears their constituents aren’t either. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and West Australian Premier Mark McGowan have repeatedly butted heads over how their respective state is keeping coronavirus at bay....
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Virus nightmare: QLD ‘on the brink’
Queensland health authorities have spent the night scrambling for answers over how six existing cases of the UK’s highly infectious COVID strain were linked to the same quarantine hotel despite having no contact. Queenslanders fear the state is “on the brink” of a nightmare after...
Virus nightmare: QLD ‘on the brink’
Queensland health authorities have spent the night scrambling for answers over how six existing cases of the UK’s highly infectious COVID strain were linked to the same quarantine hotel despite having no contact. Queenslanders fear the state is “on the brink” of a nightmare after...
Air con ‘unlikely’ to blame for Qld cluster
Experts say it is unlikely air con was the reason for a new cluster in a Brisbane hotel, after the possibility was raised by Queensland’s Premier. Air conditioning is unlikely to be the cause of a cluster of the highly contagious UK variant of COVID-19...
Grand Chancellor guests ‘distressed’ after quarantine news
Distressed Australians quarantining at Brisbane’s Hotel Grand Chancellor have been left in the lurch after they were told by a “vague” letter in their breakfast pack that they face another 14 days locked up. The impersonal measure, slammed as “disgraceful”, “distressing” and “anxiety inducing” by...
Quarantine hotel cleaner’s partner tests positive to coronavirus
The partner of the cleaner at the centre of Greater Brisbane’s recent lockdown has tested positive to COVID-19. Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young confirmed the positive result on Monday afternoon but said it would not affect the easing of lockdown restrictions. She said the...
Partner of Qld mutant strain case has virus
The partner of the cleaner who contracted the UK variant of COVID-19 and sparked Greater Brisbane’s recent lockdown has tested positive. The partner of the cleaner at the centre of Greater Brisbane’s recent lockdown has tested positive to COVID-19. Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young...
How cleaner caught mutant UK virus
Health authorities say they’ve found out how the hotel cleaner who sent Brisbane into lockdown caught the mutant UK strain of the virus from. Health authorities have tracked down the source of infection after a hotel cleaner sent Brisbane into lockdown when she was found...
How cleaner caught mutant UK virus strain revealed
Health authorities have tracked down the source of infection after a hotel cleaner sent Brisbane into lockdown when she was found to be carrying the highly-contagious UK strain of COVID-19. Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeanette Young confirmed a man had given the coronavirus variant...
‘Flabbergasted’: Premier’s PPE warning
The WA Premier has delivered a strong warning on PPE after a breach by three frontline workers left him ‘exasperated’. The WA Premier says he was “flabbergasted” to learn three COVID-19 frontline workers breached personal protective equipment rules and has warned against allowing complacency to...