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Queensland border remains open to NSW, Victoria as authorities watch coronavirus clusters
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Queensland Health has not made any new changes to the border but continues to closely monitor NSW and Victorian cases.
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Queensland s border with regional New South Wales and Victoria will remain open, but the Chief Health Officer says she is closely monitoring the very concerning coronavirus clusters there.
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The man travelled from South Africa via the UK and Qatar and is in hospital
There are no changes to current border restrictions with NSW and Victoria
Queensland health chiefs warned they are watching the COVID-19 outbreak in NSW very closely as authorities continue to monitor quarantined passengers who arrived with Australia s first known case of the South African variant.
South Australia rushed to shut its border with NSW on Thursday, after the state announced a further ten coronavirus cases.
Currently, Queenslanders coming home from NSW must isolate in hotel quarantine only if they ve been to Sydney, but otherwise are freely allowed into the state.
The Sunshine State recorded two new virus cases on Wednesday, both acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine.
The travellers had arrived from Pakistan and Ghana and were not linked to the woman in her 20s who landed in Brisbane carrying the 501.V2 South African strain on December 22, a Queensland Health spokesman said.
The World Health Organisation is unsure if the spread of new COVID-19 variants, which developed in the UK and South Africa, could undermine vaccine rollouts.
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Australia has detected its first case of the South African variant of coronavirus in hotel quarantine. What do we know?
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Australia s first case of the more transmissible South African strain of coronavirus has been detected in a woman in hotel quarantine.
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As coronavirus infections in South Africa continue to surge, Australia has detected its first case of a new, potentially fast-spreading variant linked to the country.
Queensland authorities yesterday announced a woman who had tested positive for COVID-19 in hotel quarantine was infected with the new South African variant, known as 501.V2.