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...
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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...
Victoria outbreak ‘more worrying’ than Sydney
A leading epidemiologist has said he is “more concerned” at this point about the new outbreak in Victoria than the current cases in NSW. Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases expert at the Australian National University, said it was currently only a “presumption” that the three...
Super-contagious COVID found in Qld
A super-contagious strain of COVID-19 from South Africa has been reported for the first time in Australia. An extremely contagious variant of COVID-19 that has locked down South Africa has been identified for the first time in Australia. A returning traveller tested positive to the...
Qld case tests positive to super virus strain
An extremely contagious variant of COVID-19 that has locked down South Africa has been identified for the first time in Australia. A returning traveller tested positive to the virus in a Queensland hotel quarantine facility on December 22. Further genome sequencing shows the woman had...