âStay or goâ: Six new cases as PNG flights suspended
Queensland has recorded six new COVID cases in hotel quarantine overnight as flights from PNG are suspended amid fears Queensland is âground zeroâ for the risk.
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by Matthew Killoran
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Queensland has recorded six new COVID-19 cases overnight as flights from hotspot Papua New Guinea are suspended from midnight tonight.
The new cases were all overseas acquired and detected in hotel quarantine.
It comes as North Queensland is ground zero for the growing risk of COVID-19 spreading to Australia from an outbreak in PNG, which includes the potential for a new mutant strain to develop.