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Premium Content Vulnerabilities in Queensland s hotel quarantine system have prompted the Opposition to demand an overhaul as police investigators prepare to sift through four days of CCTV to understand how a hotel cleaner was infected. A joint Queensland Health and police investigation has been launched into the incident, which resulted in 2.5 million Greater Brisbane residents being plunged into a three-day lockdown. The cleaner, in her 20s, is the first case of a hotel quarantine employee being infected at work in Queensland. Genomic sequencing has linked her case to a man, in his 30s, who returned to Queensland on December 30 after travelling from Ghana - the state s first known case of the UK variant. The man s partner has also tested positive to the variant, dubbed B117.
Partner of Brisbane hotel cleaner with UK variant of coronavirus tests positive to COVID-19
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The cleaner worked at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, which is housing travellers in quarantine.
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The partner of the hotel cleaner who tested positive for the UK variant of coronavirus earlier this month has also tested positive for COVID-19, but Queensland Health says it will not impact the easing of lockdown restrictions in Greater Brisbane.
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Queensland Health says it is likely the man will also have the more contagious UK strain of coronavirus
The man has been in quarantine since January 7