‘No one was going to stop me’: Quarantined parents finally meet newborn
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By the time the clock in their Brisbane hospital isolation room hit 5.39pm on Wednesday, Moe and Sarah Haidar had endured eight days, 13 hours and 45 minutes without so much as setting eyes on their newborn son.
The first-time parents had been watching the clock for the timed-to-the-minute end to their 14-day quarantine period and the beginning of their lives as a family of three.
Mum Sarah Haidar and meets baby Ilyas for the first time.
The Melbourne couple who travelled from Victoria to Queensland before testing positive for coronavirus may have been permitted to travel out of the state as close to 50 others are fined for “blatant” lockdown restriction breaches.
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On June 8, she tested for the disease, which came back positive. According to
AAP, authorities picked up the woman s infection after the man s employer asked them to get tested for COVID-19 so he could get a health clearance to start work.
Since testing positive, Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said on Thursday that contact-tracers have now identified 17 of the couple s close contacts, up from six on Wednesday. Three of those contacts have tested negative for coronavirus, including the woman s parents whom the couple were staying with.
Authorities have confirmed a couple who tested positive to Covid-19 did not have an exemption to enter Queensland, but why they were here has been revealed.
Melbourne woman Sarah Haidar and her husband Moe were unable to hold her newborn son who was whisked away while they were forced to remain isolated in hotel quarantine.