The HOTEL Grand Chancellor cluster of the highly contagious UK COVID-19 variant has triggered one of Queensland s biggest days of testing during the year-long coronavirus pandemic. In the 24 hours to Sunday morning, 19,152 samples were analysed for the pandemic virus, numbers only topped over three consecutive days in late August during the detention centre outbreak. Queensland s latest COVID cluster, responsible for a short, sharp, shock three-day lockdown in Greater Brisbane, stands at three cases at the Grand Chancellor, an inner-city quarantine hotel. The Hotel Grand Chancellor in inner-city Brisbane, where a worker has tested positive to the highly contagious UK COVID-19 variant. Photo: Dan Peled