Authorities worried UK strain of COVID-19 may be so infectious it broke through normal quarantine protocols
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Dr Jeannette Young said the woman had been fantastic and been cooperating fully with authorities.
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Contact tracers are scrambling to pinpoint close contacts of a Brisbane quarantine hotel cleaner diagnosed with COVID-19 after tests confirmed she was carrying the more contagious UK variant.
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Queensland health has issued alerts for people to get tested if they visited any of five venues the woman visited
There are fears current infection safety protocols may not be enough to combat the mutated UK strain
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - The sudden re-emergence of Covid-19 in places with the world s best records for handling the pandemic is sending a discouraging message to health officials: Strategies to fully snuff out the virus don t work as a long-term solution, and even the most successful places can never let down their guard.
On the same day, Thailand saw 427 new cases, a staggering jump for a country that as recently as September had gone 100 days without a domestic infection. Unfortunately, in countries that have got really low levels of virus and may well have eliminated it, it s so easy to come back, said professor Peter Collignon, a clinical medicine expert at the Australian National University Medical School in Canberra who has advised the country on virus mitigation.