A further case of COVID-19 directly linked to the Byron Bay henâs party cluster has been reported in Queensland.
Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said of the stateâs 10 new cases recorded on Tuesday, one was community-acquired.
The remainder are returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
She said the new community transmission was another attendee of the henâs party, which involved 10 people plus an entertainer who travelled to Byron Bay from Queensland between last Friday and Sunday.
âThat was the perfect case if I could describe it as that,â Dr Young said.
âThis was one of those participants in that party that happened at Byron Bay.â
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She said his – and the hen’s group’s – use the QR code at the venue was also a critical detail that helped to contain the situation.
NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said the man “immediately did the right thing” when concerns about the venue’s COVID contact were released.
Dr Chant’s Queensland counterpart, Dr Jeannette Young, meanwhile praised the first nurse who was diagnosed in the cluster. People waiting to be tested at the COVID clinic in Byron Central Hospital on Tuesday, March 30.
Genome testing indicated her infection came from a returned traveller from India; he has been at the PA Hospital.