Queensland has recorded no new cases of coronavirus overnight.
Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young confirmed a local case reported yesterday in a returned traveller who tested negative after leaving hotel quarantine is directly linked to another guest who was staying at the same hotel.
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Dr Young confirmed a local case reported yesterday in a returned traveller who tested negative after leaving hotel quarantine is no longer a mystery.(Jeff Greenberg/Getty) I got the whole genome sequence result for that man who travelled from China and was in hotel quarantine and he has exactly the same sequence, it s identical to a traveller who returned from South Africa via Doha, Dr Young said.
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A Brisbane International Airport worker with COVID-19 was in the community and at work for three days while infectious.
Authorities are racing to work out how the fully vaccinated Tarragindi woman, aged in her 40s, acquired the virus and whether she has contracted the highly infectious Delta strain.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk today confirmed the state had recorded three new local cases of COVID-19 and, as a result, restrictions would be extended across South East Queensland for another week.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she was disappointed restrictions could not yet be lifted.(Nine)
A 12-year-old boy has also tested positive four days after flying to Brisbane from Sydney on Friday July 9.
It is extremely disappointing to see that happen.
All four of the crew are now in hotel quarantine on the Gold Coast.
Dr Young said the state s two new locally contracted cases were identified in home quarantine - testing positive towards the end of the 14-day period. Both went into home quarantine when they were identified as close contacts and they tested negative when they went into quarantine and tested negative again and then both have tested positive on day 12, Dr Young said. Both are well, symptom-free, and so they have already been spoken with and they have remained in their homes and there are other people living in those households who have also been in their homes.